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Burma's mass lay meditation movement : Buddhism and the cultural construction of power

Title
Burma's mass lay meditation movement : Buddhism and the cultural construction of power / Ingrid Jordt.
Author
Jordt, Ingrid.
Publication
Athens : Ohio University Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Description
xxii, 265 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
Series Statement
Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 115
Uniform Title
Research in international studies. Southeast Asia series ; no. 115.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-257) and index.
Contents
1. Rise of the New Laity and the Restitution of the Ternary Order -- 2. The Phenomenology of Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation -- 3. Sacred Giving and the Politics of Sincerity -- 4. The Double Order of Law Monks Gender; and Resistance -- 5. From Relations of Power to Relations of Authority The Dynamics of Symbolic Legitimacy.
ISBN
  • 9780896802551 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 0896802558 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2007031090
OCLC
  • ocn156817276
  • 156817276
  • SCSB-5394187
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries