Rebuilding Buddhism : the Theravada movement in twentieth-century Nepal /

Rebuilding Buddhism : the Theravada movement in twentieth-century Nepal /

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Author / Creator:LeVine, Sarah, 1940- (Sarah E.)
Edition:1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.
Imprint:Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2007, c2005.
Description:xiii, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Theravāda Buddhism -- Nepal -- History -- 20th century.
Theravāda Buddhism.
Nepal.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6681952
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Other authors / contributors:Gellner, David N.
ISBN:9780674025547 (pbk.)
0674025547 (pbk.)
Notes:Originally published: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-363) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: The Origins of Modernist Buddhism
  • 2. Theravada Missionaries in an Autocratic State
  • 3. Creating a Tradition
  • 4. Charisma and Education: Dhammawati and the Nuns' Order after 1963
  • 5. The Changing Buddhist Laity
  • 6. Organizing and Educating the Monastic Community
  • 7. Raising the Status of Nuns: The Controversy over Bhikkhuni Ordination
  • 8. Winds of Change: Meditation and Social Activism
  • 9. Other Buddhist Revivalisms: Tibetan ""Mahayana"" and Newar ""Vajrayana""
  • 10. Conclusion: Nepal'

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