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The Buddha's Wizards - Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism (Paperback)
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The Buddha's Wizards - Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism (Paperback)
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Loot Price R554
Discovery Miles 5 540
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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. Yet 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. 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. He draws on affect theory,
material and visual culture, long-term participant observation, and
the testimonies of the devout to show how devotees perceive the
protective power of wizard-saints. Patton considers beliefs and
practices associated with wizards to be forms of defending Buddhist
traditions from colonial and state power and culturally sanctioned
responses to restrictive gender roles. The book also offers a new
lens on the political struggles and social transformations that
have taken place in Myanmar in recent years. Featuring close
attention to the voices of individual wizard devotees and the
wizards themselves, The Buddha's Wizards provides a striking new
look at a little-known aspect of Buddhist belief that helps expand
our ways of thinking about the daily experience of lived religious
practices.
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