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Book Synopsis Political Patronage and Control Over the Sangha by : Somboon Suksamran
Download or read book Political Patronage and Control Over the Sangha written by Somboon Suksamran and published by Institute of Southeast Asian. This book was released on 1981 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper deals with the structural-functional relationships between the Sangha (the community of Buddhist monks) and the state, moving from early times to the present. It attempts to show that these relationships have been structured in such a way that the Sangha tendes to be subjugated by or subordinated to the state.
Book Synopsis Buddhism and Politics in Thailand by : Somboon Suksamran
Download or read book Buddhism and Politics in Thailand written by Somboon Suksamran and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1982 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the interaction of the Sangha (the community of monks) with politics and socio-political change in Thailand. Although the interaction of Buddhism and politics is recognized, it is seldom acknowledged and frequently denied. This paradox derives from two deeply rooted notions: first, that politics is "the dirtiest business" second, that only "pure" Buddhism and a "sound" Sangha can ensure the moral welfare of the nation, and their preservation in unadulterated form is critical for the survival of national unity.
Book Synopsis Buddhism, Legitimation, and Conflict by : Peter A. Jackson
Download or read book Buddhism, Legitimation, and Conflict written by Peter A. Jackson and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1989 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental premise of this study is that the Buddhist sangha and Buddhist teachings play a key symbolic role in legitimating the exercise of secular power in Thailand. The author argues that a clear appreciation of the political legitimatory function of Buddhism provides the key to understanding the major theoretical and administrative changes that have taken place within Thai Buddhism in this century.
Book Synopsis Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government by : Neil A. Englehart
Download or read book Culture and Power in Traditional Siamese Government written by Neil A. Englehart and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A broad reevaluation of Siam's political culture as it existed prior to King Chulalongkorn's administrative reforms in the nineteenth century. Englehart offers evidence to show that traditional Siamese government functioned more effectively and rationally than most scholars have acknowledged.
Book Synopsis Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar by : Juliane Schober
Download or read book Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar written by Juliane Schober and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, Burmese have looked to the authority of their religious tradition, Theravada Buddhism, to negotiate social and political hierarchies. Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar examines those moments in the modern history of this Southeast Asian country when religion, culture, and politics converge to chart new directions. Arguing against Max Weber’s characterization of Buddhism as other-worldly and divorced from politics, this study shows that Buddhist practice necessitates public validation within an economy of merit in which moral action earns future rewards. The intervention of colonial modernity in traditional Burmese Buddhist worldviews has created conjunctures at which public concerns critical to the nation’s future are reinterpreted in light of a Buddhist paradigm of power. Author Juliane Schober begins by focusing on the public role of Buddhist practice and the ways in which precolonial Buddhist hegemonies were negotiated. Her discussion then traces the emergence of modern Buddhist communities through the colonial experience: the disruption of traditional paradigms of hegemony and governance, the introduction of new and secular venues to power, modern concerns like nationalism, education, the public place of religion, the power of the state, and Buddhist resistance to the center. The continuing discourse and cultural negotiation of these themes draw Buddhist communities into political arenas, either to legitimate political power or to resist it on moral grounds. The book concludes with an examination of the way in which Buddhist resistance in 2007, known in the West as the Saffron Revolution, was subjugated by military secularism and the transnational pressures of a global economy. A skillfully crafted work of scholarship, Modern Buddhist Conjunctures in Myanmar will be welcomed by students of Theravada Buddhism and Burma/Myanmar, readers of anthropology, history of religions, politics, and colonial studies of modern Southeast Asia, and scholars of religious and political practice in modern national contexts.
Book Synopsis Thai Culture by : Ernst Eduard Boesch
Download or read book Thai Culture written by Ernst Eduard Boesch and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Forest Monks and the Nation-state by : J. L. Taylor
Download or read book Forest Monks and the Nation-state written by J. L. Taylor and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed study on the ascetic forest monk tradition in the Lao-speaking provinces of northeastern Thailand in the wake of the early twentieth century politico-religious reforms. The narrative alternates between the periphery and the capital, dealing with historic transformations and persistencies in the social field of wandering forest monks as well as the contemporary impact of this monastic tradition in the wider social and political milieu. The writer uses original ethnographic materials and provides a rare insight into the formation of monastic lineages and the local politico-religious histories of present-day northeastern Thailand.
Book Synopsis Treatise on Wisdom - 9 by : Tomás Morales y Durán
Download or read book Treatise on Wisdom - 9 written by Tomás Morales y Durán and published by Libros de Verdad. This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is offered today is not Buddhism, it is New Age. And any investigation leads us to the same authors and translators. And it's not that it's funny. Buddhism was in death throes, once again like so many others throughout its history, and someone came to revive it. And this time it was the Theosophical Society. He managed to keep Buddhism from being engulfed by the Jesuit missionaries and he “saved” it by reviving it, but of course, giving it that theosophical flavor that is what permeates Buddhism today. A touch that corrupts the true meaning of the Buddha's Dhamma and that has contributed to consolidating ignorance even in those who sought the truth. If the water is thirsty, there is nothing that can be done.
Book Synopsis Action Dharma by : Christopher S. Queen
Download or read book Action Dharma written by Christopher S. Queen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays chart the emergence of a new chapter in an ancient faith - the rise of social service and political activism in Buddhist Asia and the West. Engaged Buddhists have sought new ways to comfort society's oppressed communities.
Book Synopsis Directory of Selected Scholars and Researchers in ASEAN by : Amnuay Tapingkae
Download or read book Directory of Selected Scholars and Researchers in ASEAN written by Amnuay Tapingkae and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Culture, Choice and Change in Thailand in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn, 1868-1910 by : Neil A. Englehart
Download or read book Culture, Choice and Change in Thailand in the Reign of King Chulalongkorn, 1868-1910 written by Neil A. Englehart and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Innovation in Religions Traditions by : Michael A. Williams
Download or read book Innovation in Religions Traditions written by Michael A. Williams and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems– both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.
Download or read book Ordering Power written by Dan Slater and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering Power draws on theoretical insights dating back to Thomas Hobbes to develop a unified framework for explaining both of these political outcomes. States are especially strong and dictatorships especially durable when they have their origins in 'protection pacts': broad elite coalitions unified by shared support for heightened state power and tightened authoritarian controls as bulwarks against especially threatening and challenging types of contentious politics. These coalitions provide the elite collective action underpinning strong states, robust ruling parties, cohesive militaries, and durable authoritarian regimes - all at the same time. Comparative-historical analysis of seven Southeast Asian countries (Burma, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Vietnam, and Thailand) reveals that subtly divergent patterns of contentious politics after World War II provide the best explanation for the dramatic divergence in Southeast Asia's contemporary states and regimes.
Book Synopsis Thailand's Struggle for Democracy by : David Van Praagh
Download or read book Thailand's Struggle for Democracy written by David Van Praagh and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This political biography portrays one of the world's most fascinating statesmen and depicts Thailand as a nation at war with itself. David Van Praagh traces the history of the country's often thwarted attempts to become increasingly democratic-from the 1930s until after the shocking clashes of May 1992 in the streets of Bangkok between the military and the middle class.
Book Synopsis The State and Buddhist Philosophy in Resource Conflicts and Conservation in Northern Thailand by : Sureerat Lakanavichian
Download or read book The State and Buddhist Philosophy in Resource Conflicts and Conservation in Northern Thailand written by Sureerat Lakanavichian and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Burma Or Myanmar? by : Lowell Dittmer
Download or read book Burma Or Myanmar? written by Lowell Dittmer and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2010 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Burma is one of the largest and most richly endowed states in Southeast Asia. Yet it remains both economically and politically underdeveloped. Why is this so? This book argues that much of the reason has to do with an ongoing struggle for national identity. It is suitable for students and professionals interested in development studies.
Book Synopsis Peoples of the Buddhist World by : Paul Hattaway
Download or read book Peoples of the Buddhist World written by Paul Hattaway and published by William Carey Library. This book was released on 2004 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past 20 years, Christians around the world have launched initiatives to reach Muslims, Communists, Hindus and other major unreached people groups but the Buddhist world has largely been overlooked. Hundreds of millions of Buddhists continue to live and die without any exposure to the Gospel. In Peoples of the Buddhist World, researcher and author Paul Hattaway graphically presents prayer profiles of more than 200 Buddhist people groups around the world, beautifully illustrated with color pictures throughout. In addition, experts have contributed articles on various aspects of Buddhism, helping the reader to learn, pray and work until that day when "the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ and he will reign for ever and ever" (Rev. 11:15).--From publisher's description.
