Saving Buddhism : the impermanence of religion in colonial Burma /
Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sāsana, the life of the Buddha's...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
2014.
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Colección: | Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Sasana decline and traditions of reform
- Buddhist education
- Morals, conduct, and community
- The shoe and the shikho.