TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spiro,Melford E
TI  - Buddhism and society: a great tradition and its Burmese vicissitudes 
SN  - 9780520046719
AV  - BL1443.S759.B833 1982 
PY  - 1982///
CY  - Berkeley
PB  - University of California Press
KW  - Buddhism
KW  - Burma
KW  - Buddhist sociology
KW  - Buddha (The concept)
N1  - 1 (pages 483-493) and index; I. PROLOGUE: Theravada Buddhism:  --; an anthropological problem; II. BUDDHISM AN IDEOLOGICAL SYSTEM:  --; Nibbanic Buddhism: a religion of radical salvation --; Kammatic Buddhism: I : a religion of proximate salvation --; Kammatic Buddhism: II : the central concept of merit --; Kammatic Buddhism:  --; III : the key doctrine of karma --; Apotropaic Buddhism: a religion of magical protection --; Esoteric Buddhism: a religion of chiliastic expectations; III. BUDDHISM A RITUAL SYSTEM:  --; The Buddhist cultus: its generic attributes --; The ceremonial cycles: I : calendrical rituals --; The ceremonial cycles: II : Life-cycle rituals --; Crisis rituals; IV. BUDDHISM A MONASTIC SYSTEM:  --; Monasticism: I : the normative structure --; Monasticism: II : the social structure --; The monk: I : recruitment structure --; The monk: II : character structure --; The Sangha and the state --; The stats of the monkhood in Burmese society; V. BUDDHISM AND THE WORLD:  --; Buddhism and the world: a critique --; Buddhism and Burmese society; 2
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