The Buddhist Religion: A Historical Introduction
144 CHAPTER SEVEN Cambodian and Thai politics. Modeling himself on the bodhisattva of compassion, he stated in his inscriptions ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 145 The split between the Mahavihara and the Abhayagiri Vihara, which came to call itse ...
146 CHAPTER SEVEN the texts that Buddhaghosa did not live to finish, and subcommentaries to the texts he did. I-ching reports th ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 147 tries. Ironically, although Sri Lanka was originally on the receiving end of the he ...
148 CHAPTER SEVEN means of making personal merit and stabilizing their political achievements. This perception was reinforced by ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 149 the Sangha contains a number of rules that are not in line with the Pali Canon, inc ...
150 CHAPTER SEVEN situation strongly affected the government's religious policy. Throughout the area, the spread of Western educ ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 151 garika Dharmapala (Strong EB, sec. 9.1)-tended to define themselves in terms of the ...
152 CHAPTER SEVEN 7 .4.3 Thailand As mentioned previously, Thailand did not come under colonial rule, although this is not to sa ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 153 and sets of the new textbooks were sent back as replacements to the monaster- ies f ...
154 CHAPTER SEVEN has spawned centers abroad as well. The military junta that replaced U Nu originally espoused a purely secular ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 155 of some anthropological findings concerning Thai Buddhism, we will divide the discu ...
156 CHAPTER SEVEN wat, and the central ritual arena of the village as a whole. It is here that vil- lagers gather to participate ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 157 dwelling unite-the ordination ceremony through which a member of the community, wit ...
158 CHAPTER SEVEN which spirits meddle in one's life can be attributed either to one's general stock of karma or to particular a ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 159 to observe the precepts after leaving the monastery, but by taking the precepts he/ ...
160 CHAPTER SEVEN merit, at least enough to influence the crop. As for the sons, they are given the time to study Buddhist doctr ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 161 Once she becomes a nun, she will find her role very different from that of a monk. ...
162 CHAPTER SEVEN ceremonies connected with them, are classified by the official Thai Sangha text on rituals as avamangala (inau ...
BUDDHISM IN SRI LANKA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA 163 fied: This mix is the bark that may help keep the tree alive by ensuring popu- lar ...
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