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Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation Movement : Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Research in International Studies, Southeast Asia SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (302 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780896804579
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Burma’s Mass Lay Meditation MovementDDC classification:
  • 294.309591
LOC classification:
  • BQ438 -- .J67 2007eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- One. Rise of the New Laity and the Restitution of the Ternary Order -- Two. The Phenomenology of Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation -- Three. Sacred Giving and the Politics of Sincerity -- Four. The Double Order of Law - Monks, Gender, and Resistance -- Five. From Relations of Power to Relations of Authority - The Dynamics of Symbolic Legitimacy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.
Summary: Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive military junta, in power since the early 1960s, governs the country.Drawing.
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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- One. Rise of the New Laity and the Restitution of the Ternary Order -- Two. The Phenomenology of Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation -- Three. Sacred Giving and the Politics of Sincerity -- Four. The Double Order of Law - Monks, Gender, and Resistance -- Five. From Relations of Power to Relations of Authority - The Dynamics of Symbolic Legitimacy -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index.

Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive military junta, in power since the early 1960s, governs the country.Drawing.

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