Becoming the Buddha : : The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand / / Donald K. Swearer.
Becoming the Buddha is the first book-length study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia: the consecration of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailan...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Buddhisms: A Princeton University Press Series ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 21 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE
- NOTE AND ABBREVIATIONS
- PART I
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. BUDDHA AND BUDDHA IMAGE
- CHAPTER 2. MEETING THE BUDDHA: TEMPLE, IMAGE, AND RELIC
- CHAPTER 3. CONSTRUCTING A BUDDHA IMAGE
- PART II
- CHAPTER 4. THE RITUAL: OPENING THE EYES OF THE BUDDHA
- CHAPTER 5. INSTRUCTING THE IMAGE
- CHAPTER 6. EMPOWERING THE IMAGE
- PART III
- CHAPTER 7. THE BODY OF THE BUDDHA: POPULAR BUDDHISM
- CHAPTER 8. CONSECRATION TRADITIONS IN OTHER BUDDHIST CULTURES: REASSESSING THE BUDDHABHISEKA
- EPILOGUE: IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA, KILL HIM!
- NOTES
- GLOSSARY OF SELECTED PĀLI AND THAI TERMS
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX