The Immortals : : Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma / / Guillaume Rozenberg; ed. by George J. Tanabe.
In 1952 a twenty-six-year-old man living in a village in Central Burma was possessed by weikza-humans with extraordinary powers, including immortality. Key figures in Burmese Buddhism, weikza do not die but live on in an invisible realm. From there they re-enter the world through possession to care...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Topics in Contemporary Buddhism ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 1 chart, 1 line drawing |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor's Preface
- Translator's Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Note on the English Edition
- A Word to the Reader
- Dramatis Personae
- 1. From Belief to Believing
- 2. Being a Disciple, Fashioning a Cult
- 3. The Possessed
- 4. In Quest of Invulnerability
- 5. Trial by Fire
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index