Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism

ISBN-13: 9781138493933 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 374 str.

Stephen C. Berkwitz; Ashley Thompson

Opis

Among one of the older sub-fields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravāda Buddhism is undergoing a revival by contemporary scholars who are revising long-held conventional views of the tradition while undertaking new approaches and engaging new subject matter.

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Introduction  PART I – Ideas/Ideals  1. "THERAVĀDA": Sectarianism and Diversity in Mahāvihāra Historiography  2. PĀLI: Its Place in the Theravāda Buddhist Tradition  3. CIRCULATIONS: Linked Spaces and Divergent Temporalities in the Pāli World  4. STATECRAFT: From Buddhist Kingship to Modern States  5. REFORM: Ideas and Events in Modern Theravāda Reformism  6. TRADITION: Nuns and "Theravāda" in Sri Lanka  PART II – Practices/Persons  7. MERIT: Ritual Giving and Its Cultural Meditations  8. MEDITATION: Techniques and Processes of Transformation  9. REPETITION: Pāli Iterations of Ritual Commitment, Commentarial Refrain, and Assiduous Practice  10. FILIAL PIETY: Shades of Difference across Theravādin traditions  11. LAITY: Status, Role and Practice in Theravāda  12. DISCIPLINE: Beyond the Vinaya  13. FUNERALS: Changing Funerary Practices  PART III – Texts/Teachings  14. CANONS: Authoritative Texts of the Theravaṃsa  15. ABHIDHAMMA: Theravāda Thought in Relation to Sarvāstivāda Thought  16. VAṂSA: History and Lineage in the Theravāda  17. MERIT: Ten Ways of Making Merit in Theravāda Exegetical Literature and Contemporary Sri Lanka  18. BILINGUALISM: Theravāda Bitexts across South and Southeast Asia  PART IV – Images/Imaginations  19. VISUAL NARRATIVES: Buddha Life Stories in the ‘Medieval Theravāda’ of Southeast Asia  20. ICONS: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravādin Art   21. AFFECT: Notes from Contemporary Southeast Asian Visual Culture  22. DEITIES: Supernatural Forces in Theravāda Buddhist Religious Cultures  23. MONS: Creating a Narrative of the Origins of Theravāda