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Champions of Buddhism : Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Brac de La Perriere, Benedicte (Editor ), Rozenberg, Guillaume (Editor ), Turner, Alicia Marie (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Singapore : NUS Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Half title, full title, copyright page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Note on Transcription; Preface; Part One: Locating Weikza Cults in the Burmese Religious Landscape; Chapter 1: On Saints and Wizards: Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism; Chapter 2: The Longevity of Weikza; Chapter 3: Spirits versus Weikza: Two Competing Ways of Mediation; Part Two: Defenders of Buddhism: Weikza Rituals for Safeguarding Religion; Chapter 4: The World Emperor's Battle against the Evil Forces 
505 0 |a Chapter 5: From Bricks to Pagodas: Weikza Specialists and the Rituals of Pagoda-BuildingPart Three: Technologies and Figures of Power: Weikza Specialists as Diagram-Makers, Diviners, and Exorcists; Chapter 6: In Pursuit of the Sorcerer's Power: Sacred Diagrams as Technologies of Potency; Chapter 7: Healing through Weikza: Therapeutic Cults in the Arakanese Context; Chapter 8: Powerful Yet Powerless, Powerless Yet Powerful: Being an Exorcist in Burma; Postscript: What Kind of Buddhism is That?; Glossary; Bibliography; Contributors; Index 
546 |a In English. 
588 |a Description based on print version record. 
650 6 |a Weikza  |v Congres. 
650 6 |a Cultes bouddhiques  |z Birmanie  |v Congres. 
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650 7 |a Buddhist cults.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00840148 
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650 0 |a Weikza  |v Congresses. 
650 0 |a Buddhist cults  |z Burma  |v Congresses. 
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