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9783895001994

Skilling, Peter

Buddhism and Buddhist Literature of South-East Asia

Selected Papers ed. by Claudio Cicuzza

2009
13.0 x 21.0 cm, 296 p., paperback / softback
22,00 €

ISBN: 9783895001994

Short Description

The twelve essays in this volume survey aspects of Buddhism and Buddhist literature in pre-modern South-East Asia and Thailand, drawing on Pali and vernacular texts, liturgy, and inscriptions. They discuss Theravadin conceptions of the Bodhisatta, relations between Sanskrit and vernacular literature in Thailand, and questions of the transmission and dissemination of Buddhist ideas and narratives through sermon and ceremony. The texts studied are both products and agents in the intellectual and social world of South-East Asian Buddhism. Broader questions include the advent of Theravada Buddhism to South-East Asia anf the role of South-East Asia in Buddhist studies.
Series: Publications of the Lumbini International Research Institute · Nepal
Subseries: Materials for the Study of the Tripitaka Volume: 5

Keywords

Biography & non-fiction prose (115) || Buddhism (39) || Early Indic languages (9) || History of religion (69) || Indic, East Indo-European & Dravidian languages (108) || Literary essays (62) || Literary studies: general (121) || Literature: history & criticism (179) || Pali (5) || Religion & beliefs (226) || Religion: general (94) || Sanskrit (10) || South East Asia (7)