Research Catalog
Champions of Buddhism : Weikza cults in contemporary Burma
- Title
- Champions of Buddhism : Weikza cults in contemporary Burma / edited by Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière, Guillaume Rozenberg, and Alicia Turner.
- Author
- Burma-Myanmar Studies Conference (2010 : Marseille, France), author. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
- Publication
- Singapore : NUS Press, [2014]
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
2 Items
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | BQ422 .B87 2014 | Off-site | |
Not available - Please for assistance. | Text | Use in library | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxvii, 261 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliograhical references (pages 231-246) and index.
- Language (note)
- In English.
- Contents
- Preface. The other Burmese Buddhism / Kate Crosby -- On saints and wizards: ideals of human perfection and power in contemporary Burmese Buddhism / Patrick Pranke -- The longevity of weikza / Juliane Schober -- Spirits versus weikza: two competing ways of mediation / Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière -- The world emperor's battle against the evil forces / Niklas Foxeus -- From bricks to pagodas: weikza specialists and the rituals of pagoda-building / Keiko Tosa -- In pursuit of the sorcerer's power: sacred diagrams as technologies of potency / Thomas Patton -- Healing through weikza: therapeutic cults in the Arakanese context / Céline Coderey -- Powerful yet powerless, powerless yet powerful: being an exorcist in Burma / Guillaume Rozenberg -- Postscript. What kind of Buddhism is that? / Steven Collins.
- ISBN
- 9789971697808
- 9971697807
- LCCN
- 2014329017
- OCLC
- ocn857391686
- 857391686
- SCSB-5805765
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries