TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patton,Thomas Nathan
TI  - The Buddha's wizards: magic, protection, and healing in Burmese Buddhism 
SN  - 9780231547376
AV  - BQ438 
U1  - 294.3/43309591 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Columbia University Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Burma
KW  - Wizards
KW  - Occultism
KW  - fast
KW  - RELIGION / Comparative Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia
KW  - Religious life and customs
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Vanguards of the Sāsana -- The Buddha's chief wizard -- Women of the wizard king -- Pagodas of power -- Wizards in the shadows
N2  - Belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha's Wizards is a historically informed, ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era
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