Cantitate/Preț
Produs

Popularizing Buddhism

Autor Mahinda Deegalle
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 oct 2006
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.
Citește tot Restrânge

Preț: 49157 lei

Preț vechi: 67415 lei
-27%

Puncte Express: 737

Preț estimativ în valută:
8695 10310$ 7575£

Carte indisponibilă temporar

Doresc să fiu notificat când acest titlu va fi disponibil:

Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780791468975
ISBN-10: 0791468976
Pagini: 255
Dimensiuni: 161 x 236 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: State University of New York Press

Notă biografică

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.