Book · 1971
Buddhism and Society : a Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes
Spiro, Melford E. · 1st ed.
1 of 1 copy availableหอสมุดกลาง · 294.3013 S759B 1971
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About this title
- Title
- Buddhism and Society : a Great Tradition and its Burmese Vicissitudes
- Author
- Spiro, Melford E.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- London : George Allen & Unwin LTD, 1971
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 0042940672
- Notes
- Theravada Buddhism : an Anthropological Problem -- Nibbanic Buddhism : a Religion of Radical Salvation -- Kammatic Buddhism : I. A Religion of Proximate Salvation -- Kammatic Buddhism : II. The Central Concept of Merit -- Kammatic Buddhism : III. The Key Doctrine of Karma -- Apotropaic Buddhism : A Religion of Magical Protection -- The Buddhist Cultus : Its Generic Attributes -- The Ceremonial Cycle : I. Calendrical Rituals -- The Ceremonial Cycle : II. Life-Cycle Rituals -- Crisis Rituals -- Monasticism : I. The Normative Structure -- Monasticism : II. The Social Structure -- The Monk : I. Recruitment Structure -- The Monk : II. Character Structure -- The Sangha and the State -- The Status of the Monkhood in Burmese Society -- Buddhism and the World : A Critique -- Buddhism and Burmese Society