Buddhas Wizards
Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far from the typical picture of Buddhism. The Buddha's Wizards is a historically informed ethnographic study that explores the supernat… Celý popis ↓
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Buddhas Wizards
Wizards with magical powers to heal the sick, possess the bodies of their followers, and defend their tradition against outside threats are far from the typical picture of Buddhism. 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.Thomas Nathan Patton explains the world of wizards, spells, and supernatural powers in terms of both the broader social, political, and religious context and the intimate roles that wizards play in people's everyday lives. Yet belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists.
He draws on affect theory, material and visual culture, long-term participant observation, and the testimonies of the devout to show how devotees
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