The Immortals : Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma /
In 1952 a twenty-six-year-old man living in a village in Central Burma was possessed by weikza-humans with extraordinary powers, including immortality. Key figures in Burmese Buddhism, weikza do not die but live on in an invisible realm. From there they re-enter the world through possession to care...
Autor principal: | Rozenberg, Guillaume (Autor) |
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Otros Autores: | Keeler, Ward, Tanabe, George J. (Editor ) |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Topics in Contemporary Buddhism ;
19 |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
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