Simas : : Foundations of Buddhist Religion /

Simas : : Foundations of Buddhist Religion / / ed. by Jason A. Carbine, Erik W. Davis.

Human-fashioned boundaries transform spaces by introducing dualisms, bifurcations, creative symbioses, contradictions, and notions of inclusion and exclusion. The Buddhist boundaries considered in this book, sīmās—a term found in South and Southeast Asian languages and later translated into East Asi...

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MitwirkendeR:
Bhikkhu, Nagasena,
Carbine, Jason A.,
Crosby, Kate,
Davis, Erik W.,
Guthrie, Elizabeth,
Hoeur, Chhuon,
Kent, Alexandra,
Kieffer-Pülz, Petra,
Kobayashi, Satoru,
Lovenheim Irwin, Anthony,
Marston, John A.,
Murphy, Stephen A.,
Newhall, Thomas,
Pattaratorn Chirapravati, M. L,
Sheravanichkul, Arthid,
Work, Courtney,
HerausgeberIn:
Carbine, Jason A.,
Davis, Erik W.,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (408 p.) :; 19 b&w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Buddhist Sīmās across Time and Place
  • 1 Sīmā Basics from Buddha to Burma
  • Part I Histories: Stones, Places, People
  • 2 Rituals Set in Stone: Tracing the Archaeological Evidence for the Sīmā Stone Tradition in Southeast Asia
  • 3 The Development of Ordination Platforms (jietan 戒壇) in China: The Translation and Interpretation of Sīmā in East Asia from the Third to Seventh Centuries
  • 4 Reflections on the Boundary Markers and the New Buddhist Lineage: The Mahā-sīmā at Wat Rajapradit Sathitmahasimaram by King Rama IV (r. 1851–1868)
  • 5 Changing Sīmā, Changing World
  • Part II Contemporary Practices: Focus on Cambodia
  • 6 Lines of Influence around Cambodia’s Buddhist Temples
  • 7 Regenerating Ancient Sīmās: A Study of Buddhist Places of Worship in Rural Cambodia
  • 8 Sīmās as Assemblages of Territorial Imagination in Cambodia
  • 9 Stones of Spirits and Kings: Negotiating Land Grabs in Contemporary Cambodia
  • Part III Textual Traditions: Creating, Embracing, Defending Boundaries
  • 10 Analysis of Sīmās (Boundaries)
  • 11 King Rāmādhipati, Prime Minister U Nu, and the Kalyāṇī Sīmā: Constructing and Overcoming Others
  • 12 Flawed or Deliberately Altered Readings? Two Quotations from the Vajirabuddhiṭīkā in the Sīmālakkhaṇadīpanī
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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