The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand.
The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand.
1. Introduction Part I. The arahant and the Path of Meditation: 2. The Buddhist conception of the arahant 3. The Path of Purification: the ascetic practices 4. The stages and rewards of Buddhist meditation 5. The forest-monk tradition in Southeast Asia: a historical backdrop Part II. The hagiography of a Buddhist saint: text and context the politics of sectarianism: 6. The biography of a modern saint 7. The Buddha's life as paradigm 8. The ordering principles behind Buddhist saintly biography 9. The disciples of the Master 10. The biographer as exemplary forest-monk, meditator, and teacher 11. Sectarianism and the sponsorship of meditation 12. The Mandnikdi sect's propagation of lay meditation 13. The center-periphery dialectic: the Mahathat and Bovonniwet sponsorship of meditation compared Part III. The cult of amulets: the objectification and transmission of charisma: 14. The cult of images and amulets 15. An enumeration of historic and popular amulets 16. The 'likeness' of the image to the original Buddha: the case of the Shillala Buddha 17. The process of sacralizing images and amulets: the transfer of power by monks 18. Amulets blessed by contemporary forest saints 19. Saints on cosmic mountains Part IV. Conceptual and theoretical clarifications: 20. A commentary on millennial Buddhism in Thailand and Burma 21. The sources of charismatic leadership: Max Weber revisited 22. The objectification of charisma and the fetishism of objects
1. Introduction Part I. The arahant and the Path of Meditation: 2. The Buddhist conception of the arahant 3. The Path of Purification: the ascetic practices 4. The stages and rewards of Buddhist meditation 5. The forest-monk tradition in Southeast Asia: a historical backdrop Part II. The hagiography of a Buddhist saint: text and context the politics of sectarianism: 6. The biography of a modern saint 7. The Buddha's life as paradigm 8. The ordering principles behind Buddhist saintly biography 9. The disciples of the Master 10. The biographer as exemplary forest-monk, meditator, and teacher 11. Sectarianism and the sponsorship of meditation 12. The Mandnikdi sect's propagation of lay meditation 13. The center-periphery dialectic: the Mahathat and Bovonniwet sponsorship of meditation compared Part III. The cult of amulets: the objectification and transmission of charisma: 14. The cult of images and amulets 15. An enumeration of historic and popular amulets 16. The 'likeness' of the image to the original Buddha: the case of the Shillala Buddha 17. The process of sacralizing images and amulets: the transfer of power by monks 18. Amulets blessed by contemporary forest saints 19. Saints on cosmic mountains Part IV. Conceptual and theoretical clarifications: 20. A commentary on millennial Buddhism in Thailand and Burma 21. The sources of charismatic leadership: Max Weber revisited 22. The objectification of charisma and the fetishism of objects
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Shop der buecher.de GmbH & Co. KG Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg Amtsgericht Augsburg HRA 13309
