Routledge Handbook of Theravada Buddhism (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Berkwitz, Stephen C.; Thompson, Ashley

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Among one of the older sub-fields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravada Buddhism is undergoing a revival by contemporary scholars who are revising long-held conventional views of the tradition while undertaking new approaches and engaging new subject matter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 394
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. März 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351026659
• Artikelnr.: 63429033

Autorenporträt

Stephen C. Berkwitz is Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, Missouri State University, USA. His research is focused on the literature and cultural history of Sri Lankan Buddhism. He has published South Asian Buddhism: A Survey (Routledge 2009) and is the editor of the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism series. Ashley Thompson is Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art at SOAS, University of London, UK. She is a specialist in Southeast Asian Cultural Histories, with particular expertise on premodern Cambodian arts. Her most recent monograph is Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor (Routledge 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I - Ideas/Ideals 1. "THERAV
DA": Sectarianism and Diversity in Mah
vih
ra Historiography 2. P
LI: Its Place in the Therav
da Buddhist Tradition 3. CIRCULATIONS: Linked Spaces and Divergent Temporalities in the P
li World 4. STATECRAFT: From Buddhist Kingship to Modern States 5. REFORM: Ideas and Events in Modern Therav
da Reformism 6. TRADITION: Nuns and "Therav
da" in Sri Lanka PART II - Practices/Persons 7. MERIT: Ritual Giving and Its Cultural Meditations 8. MEDITATION: Techniques and Processes of Transformation 9. REPETITION: P
li Iterations of Ritual Commitment, Commentarial Refrain, and Assiduous Practice 10. FILIAL PIETY: Shades of Difference across Therav
din traditions 11. LAITY: Status, Role and Practice in Therav
da 12. DISCIPLINE: Beyond the Vinaya 13. FUNERALS: Changing Funerary Practices PART III - Texts/Teachings 14. CANONS: Authoritative Texts of the Theraväsa 15. ABHIDHAMMA: Therav
da Thought in Relation to Sarv
stiv
da Thought 16. VA
SA: History and Lineage in the Therav
da 17. MERIT: Ten Ways of Making Merit in Therav
da Exegetical Literature and Contemporary Sri Lanka 18. BILINGUALISM: Therav
da Bitexts across South and Southeast Asia PART IV - Images/Imaginations 19. VISUAL NARRATIVES: Buddha Life Stories in the 'Medieval Therav
da' of Southeast Asia 20. ICONS: Standing out from the Narrative in Therav
din Art 21. AFFECT: Notes from Contemporary Southeast Asian Visual Culture 22. DEITIES: Supernatural Forces in Therav
da Buddhist Religious Cultures 23. MONS: Creating a Narrative of the Origins of Therav
da