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Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism book cover

1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Theravāda Buddhism

Edited By Stephen C. Berkwitz, Ashley Thompson Copyright 2022
394 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

394 Pages 25 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Among one of the older subfields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Theravāda Buddhism is undergoing a revival by contemporary scholars who are revising long-held conventional views of the tradition while undertaking new approaches and engaging new subject matter. The term Theravāda has been refined, and research has expanded beyond the analysis of canonical texts to examine contemporary cultural... Read more

Introduction

Stephen C. Berkwitz & Ashley Thompson

　

PART I – Ideas/Ideals

  1. "THERAVĀDA": Sectarianism and Diversity in Mahāvihāra Historiography

    2. Sven Bretfeld

  2. PĀLI: Its Place in the Theravāda Buddhist Tradition

    3. Alastair Gornall

  3. CIRCULATIONS: Linked Spaces and Divergent Temporalities in the Pāli World

    4. Anne M. Blackburn

  4. STATECRAFT: From Buddhist Kingship to Modern States

    5. Patrice Ladwig

  5. REFORM: Ideas and Events in Modern Theravāda Reformism

    6. Anne Hansen & Anthony Lovenheim Irwin

  6. TRADITION: Nuns and "Theravāda" in Sri Lanka

    7. Nirmala Salgado

    　

    PART II – Practices/Persons

  7. MERIT: Ritual Giving and Its Cultural Meditations

    8. Juliane Schober

  8. MEDITATION: Techniques and Processes of Transformation

    9. Pyi Phyo Kyaw & Kate Crosby

  9. REPETITION: Pāli Iterations of Ritual Commitment, Commentarial Refrain, and Assiduous Practice

    10. Christoph Emmrich

  10. FILIAL PIETY: Shades of Difference across Theravādin traditions

    11. Gregory Kourilsky

  11. LAITY: Status, Role and Practice in Theravāda

    12. Asanga Tilakaratne

  12. DISCIPLINE: Beyond the Vinaya

    13. Thomas Borchert

  13. FUNERALS: Changing Funerary Practices

    14. Katherine Bowie

    　

    PART III – Texts/Teachings　

  14. CANONS: Authoritative Texts of the Theravaṃsa

    15. Peter Skilling

  15. ABHIDHAMMA: Theravāda Thought in Relation to　Sarvāstivāda Thought

    16. Rupert Gethin

  16. VAṂSA: History and Lineage in the Theravāda

    17. Stephen C. Berkwitz

  17. MERIT: Ten Ways of Making Merit in Theravāda Exegetical Literature and Contemporary Sri Lanka

    18. Rita Langer

  18. BILINGUALISM: Theravāda Bitexts across South and Southeast Asia

    19. Trent Walker

    　

    PART IV – Images/Imaginations

  19. VISUAL NARRATIVES: Buddha Life Stories in the ‘Medieval Theravāda’ of Southeast Asia

    20. Samerchai Poolsuwan

  20. ICONS: Standing out from the Narrative in Theravādin Art

    21. Ashley Thompson

  21. AFFECT: Notes from Contemporary Southeast Asian Visual Culture

    22. Chairat Polmuk

  22. DEITIES: Supernatural Forces in Theravāda Buddhist Religious Cultures

    23. John Holt

  23. MONS: Creating a Narrative of the Origins of Theravāda

Patrick McCormick

Biography

Stephen C. Berkwitz is Professor and Head of the Department of Religious Studies, Missouri State University, USA. His research is focused on the literature and cultural history of Sri Lankan Buddhism. He has published South Asian Buddhism: A Survey (Routledge 2009) and is the editor of the Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism series.

Ashley Thompson is Hiram W. Woodward Chair in Southeast Asian Art at SOAS, University of London, UK. She is a specialist in Southeast Asian Cultural Histories, with particular expertise on premodern Cambodian arts. Her most recent monograph is Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor (Routledge 2016).

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