Buddhism and Society: A Great Tradition and Its Burmese VicissitudesUniversity of California Press, 27 mag 1982 - 510 pagine The current Western interest in Buddhism and other Eastern religions is--among other reasons--both the result of and the stimulation for an entire library of books purporting to bring the Wisdom of the East to an audience for whom the wisdom of the West has failed. This book is not an example of that genre. It is an attempt to interpret Buddhism in the light of some current theories about religion. As a work of scholarship, rather than a homiletic tract or an apologetic treatise, its aim is to understand Buddhism as one historical variant of the generic human attempt to find meaning and hope in a sacred order that transcends the mundane order of existence; its aime is not to encourage or discourage either a devotional or a soteriological interest in Buddhism. |
Sommario
An Anthropological Problem | 3 |
A Religion of Radical Salvation | 31 |
I A Religion of Proximate Salvation | 66 |
II The Central Concept of Merit | 92 |
III The Key Doctrine of Karma | 114 |
A Religion of Magical Protection | 140 |
A Religion of Chiliastic Expectations | 162 |
Its Generic Attributes | 191 |
I The Normative Structure | 279 |
II The Social Structure | 305 |
I Recruitment Structure | 321 |
II Character Structure | 351 |
The Sangha and the State | 378 |
The Status of the Monkhood in Burmese Society | 396 |
A Critique | 425 |
Buddhism and Burmese Society | 438 |
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