Popularizing Buddhism: Preaching As Performance in Sri Lanka - Tapa blanda

Deegalle, Mahinda

 
9780791468982: Popularizing Buddhism: Preaching As Performance in Sri Lanka
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ISBN 10: 0791468984 ISBN 13: 9780791468982
Editorial: State University of New York Press, 2007

Sinopsis

Explores the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching.

The first book to focus on the ritual practice of Buddhist preaching in Asia, Popularizing Buddhism examines the role of preaching in Buddhist devotional life and its relationship to the vernacular Sinhala literature of late medieval Sri Lanka. Blending ethnography, textual and doctrinal studies, and an analysis of untranslated Sinhala vernacular Buddhist texts, Mahinda Deegalle traces the development of Buddhist preaching within the Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist tradition. He explains the preaching ceremony popularly known as bana and offers a rich depiction of preaching styles, events, and specific preachers. The book delves into the debates surrounding the preaching ritual's origin and its potential beginning and continuity within the bhanaka (reciter) tradition, and explores the interactions between vernacular religious traditions of Sri Lanka with cosmopolitan Buddhism. Deegalle advances previous research on the transmission of Buddhist teachings by constructing a vivid picture of the way Sri Lankan Buddhist traditions have shaped the nature of Theravada Buddhism.

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Acerca del autor

Mahinda Deegalle is Senior Lecturer in the Study of Religions at Bath Spa University in England. He is the editor of Buddhism, Conflict, and Violence in Modern Sri Lanka and coeditor (with Frank J. Hoffman) of Pali Buddhism.

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Editorial
State University of New York Press
Año de publicación
2007
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0791468984
ISBN 13 
9780791468982
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
256
Contacto del fabricante
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9780791468975: Popularizing Buddhism: Preaching as Performance in Sri Lanka

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ISBN 10:  0791468976 ISBN 13:  9780791468975
Editorial: State University of New York Press, 2006
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