Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in Northeast Thailand
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Owner name stamp to endpapers and bottom page edge, otherwise clean. 388pp, illus.
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Dr Tambiah describes the religious practices and beliefs of the people of a remote village in north-east Thailand, relating them to the wider context of the civilization in which they are embedded, and examining the relationship of the religious practices of the villagers to the classical Buddhist tradition. Because they have based their studies on the Sanskrit and Pali literature, Western observers have tended to dismiss much of the popular manifestation of Buddhism as debased. Dr Tambiah demonstrates that this judgement is misleading, and emphasizes that the contemporary village religion that he describes manifests continuities as well as transformations with respect to the classical literary tradition. The village religion is described primarily through ritual.Product Info
ISBN: 0521099587
ISBN-13: 9780521099585
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1970
Type: Used
Binding: Softcover
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