Saving Buddhism : : The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma / / Alicia Turner; ed. by Rita Smith Kipp, David P. Chandler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Turner, Alicia,
• HerausgeberIn: Chandler, David P.,; Kipp, Rita Smith,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

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 t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Note on Transliteration
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Sāsana Decline and Traditions of Reform
• 3. Buddhist Education
• 4. Morals, Conduct, and Community
• 5. The Shoe and the Shikho
• 6. Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• Other Volumes in the Series