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Routledge Handbook of Therav?da Buddhism

 
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Among one of the older sub-fields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Therav?da 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.

Long description:

Among one of the older subfields in Buddhist Studies, the study of Therav?da 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 Therav?da has been refined, and research has expanded beyond the analysis of canonical texts to examine contemporary cultural forms, social movements linked with meditation practices, material culture, and vernacular language texts. The Routledge Handbook of Therav?da Buddhism illustrates the growth and new directions of scholarship in the study of Therav?da Buddhism and is structured in four parts:




  • Ideas/Ideals



  • Practices/Persons



  • Texts/Teachings



  • Images/Imaginations


Owing largely to the continued vitality of Therav?da Buddhist communities in countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Laos, as well as in diaspora communities across the globe, traditions associated with what is commonly (and fairly recently) called Therav?da attract considerable attention from scholars and practitioners around the world. An in-depth guide to the distinctive features of Therav?da, the Handbook will be an invaluable resource for providing structure and guidance for scholars and students of Asian Religion, Buddhism and, in particular, Therav?da Buddhism.


The introduction and chapter 20 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Table of Contents:

Introduction  PART I ? Ideas/Ideals  1. "THERAV?DA": Sectarianism and Diversity in Mah?vih?ra Historiography  2. P?LI: Its Place in the Therav?da Buddhist Tradition  3. CIRCULATIONS: Linked Spaces and Divergent Temporalities in the P?li World  4. STATECRAFT: From Buddhist Kingship to Modern States  5. REFORM: Ideas and Events in Modern Therav?da Reformism  6. TRADITION: Nuns and "Therav?da" in Sri Lanka  PART II ? Practices/Persons  7. MERIT: Ritual Giving and Its Cultural Meditations  8. MEDITATION: Techniques and Processes of Transformation  9. REPETITION: P?li Iterations of Ritual Commitment, Commentarial Refrain, and Assiduous Practice  10. FILIAL PIETY: Shades of Difference across Therav?din traditions  11. LAITY: Status, Role and Practice in Therav?da  12. DISCIPLINE: Beyond the Vinaya  13. FUNERALS: Changing Funerary Practices  PART III ? Texts/Teachings  14. CANONS: Authoritative Texts of the Therava?sa  15. ABHIDHAMMA: Therav?da Thought in Relation to Sarv?stiv?da Thought  16. VA?SA: History and Lineage in the Therav?da  17. MERIT: Ten Ways of Making Merit in Therav?da Exegetical Literature and Contemporary Sri Lanka  18. BILINGUALISM: Therav?da Bitexts across South and Southeast Asia  PART IV ? Images/Imaginations  19. VISUAL NARRATIVES: Buddha Life Stories in the ?Medieval Therav?da? of Southeast Asia  20. ICONS: Standing out from the Narrative in Therav?din Art   21. AFFECT: Notes from Contemporary Southeast Asian Visual Culture  22. DEITIES: Supernatural Forces in Therav?da Buddhist Religious Cultures  23. MONS: Creating a Narrative of the Origins of Therav?da