The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets : a study in charisma, hagiography, sectarianism, and millennial Buddhism /
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| Author / Creator: | Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1929- |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984. |
| Description: | xi, 417 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in social anthropology ; 49 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/618448 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Part I. The arahant and the Path of Meditation
- 2. The Buddhist conception of the arahant
- 3. The Path of Purification: the ascetic practices
- 4. The stages and rewards of Buddhist meditation
- 5. The forest-monk tradition in Southeast Asia: a historical backdrop
- Part II. The hagiography of a Buddhist saint: text and context; the politics of sectarianism
- 6. The biography of a modern saint
- 7. The Buddha's life as paradigm
- 8. The ordering principles behind Buddhist saintly biography
- 9. The disciples of the Master
- 10. The biographer as exemplary forest-monk, meditator, and teacher
- 11. Sectarianism and the sponsorship of meditation
- 12. The Mandnikdi sect's propagation of lay meditation
- 13. The center-periphery dialectic: the Mahathat and Bovonniwet sponsorship of meditation compared
- Part III. The cult of amulets: the objectification and transmission of charisma
- 14. The cult of images and amulets
- 15. An enumeration of historic and popular amulets
- 16. The 'likeness' of the image to the original Buddha: the case of the Shillala Buddha
- 17. The process of sacralizing images and amulets: the transfer of power by monks
- 18. Amulets blessed by contemporary forest saints
- 19. Saints on cosmic mountains
- Part IV. Conceptual and theoretical clarifications
- 20. A commentary on millennial Buddhism in Thailand and Burma
- 21. The sources of charismatic leadership: Max Weber revisited
- 22. The objectification of charisma and the fetishism of objects