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001 2009039613
003 DLC
005 20110505083334.0
008 090923s2010 nyua b s001 0 eng
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020 $a9781438432519 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a1438432518 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781438432502 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 $a143843250X (pbk. : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBQ410$b.S93 2010
082 00 $a294.3/370959$222
100 1 $aSwearer, Donald K.,$d1934-
245 14 $aThe Buddhist world of Southeast Asia /$cDonald K. Swearer.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aAlbany :$bState University of New York Press,$cc2010.
300 $axvi, 304 p. :$bill. ;$c23 cm.
490 1 $aSUNY series in religious studies
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 262-286) and index.
505 0 $aPt. 1. : The popular tradition. Ideal action ; Ritual occasions, merit, and the appropiation of power ; Festivals ; Rites of passage -- pt. 2. Buddhism and the State. Asoka, the exemplary Buddhist ruler ; kings and cosmology ; the Cosmological Scheme of the Three Worlds ; the Buddha as cosmocrator ; Modern nationalism and Buddhism -- pt. 3. Buddhism and Modernization. The changing role of the monk ; Reforming the Tradition ; the changing role of the laity ; Women and Buddhism ; Buddhism and the West -- postscript -- Appendix 1: Sigālaka Sutta : Code of lay ethics -- Appendix 2. Borobudur.
650 0 $aBuddhism$xSocial aspects$zSoutheast Asia.
830 0 $aSUNY series in religious studies.