TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jordt,Ingrid
TI  - Burma's mass lay meditation movement: Buddhism and the cultural construction of power 
T2  - Ohio University research in international studies. Southeast Asia series
SN  - 9780896804579
AV  - BQ438 .J67 2007eb
U1  - 294.309591 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Athens
PB  - Ohio University Press
KW  - Buddhism and politics
KW  - Burma
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Buddhist laymen
KW  - Human rights movements
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; List of Illustrations; Preface; Introduction; One. Rise of the New Laity and the Restitution of the Ternary Order; Two. The Phenomenology of Satipatthana Vipassana Meditation; Three. Sacred Giving and the Politics of Sincerity; Four. The Double Order of Law -- Monks, Gender, and Resistance; Five. From Relations of Power to Relations of Authority -- The Dynamics of Symbolic Legitimacy; Epilogue; Notes; Glossary; References; Index
N2  - Burma's Mass Lay Meditation Movement: Buddhism and the Cultural Construction of Power describes a transformation in Buddhist practice in contemporary Burma. This revitalization movement has had real consequences for how the oppressive military junta, in power since the early 1960s, governs the country. Drawing on more than ten years of extensive fieldwork in Burma, Ingrid Jordt explains how vipassana meditation has brought about a change of worldview for millions of individuals, enabling them to think and act independently of the totalitarian regime. She addresses human r
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