Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma
(Part of the Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory Series)
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Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sāsana, the life of the Buddha's teachings. Burmese Buddhists interpreted the political and social changes between 1890 and 1920 as signs that the Buddha's sāsana was deteriorating...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:082487286X
ISBN13:9780824872861
Release Date:February 2017
Publisher:University of Hawaii Press
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Religion Religion & SpiritualityCustomer Reviews
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