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Author: Lyn Hamilton
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2004-03-02
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780425194874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToronto shopkeeper Lara McClintoch heads for Bangkok to search for the truth about a missing antiques dealer, with only a fifty-year-old newspaper clipping about a murder and broken terracotta amulets as a clue to a deadly conspiracy and a family tragedy.
Author: Pattana Kitiarsa
Publisher: Silkworm Books
Published: 2012-08-15
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 1630417572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMediums, Monks, and Amulets is a sophisticated yet accessible study of the state of popular Buddhist beliefs as they are practiced in Thailand today. Using a combination of focused case studies and analysis, Pattana Kitiarsa explores the nature and evolution of popular Buddhism over the past three decades by focusing on those individuals who practice, popularize, and profit from it. The case studies profiled in this book include prominent spirit mediums and magic monks, the lottery fever surrounding the posthumous cult of folk singer, Phumphuang Duangchan, the Chatukham‐Rammathep amulet craze, and the cult of wealth attributed to preeminent monk, Luang Pho Khun. It also explores the history of both popular and official opinion surrounding supernatural Buddhism and its clashes with the rationalist, modernizing policies of Thailand’s monarchy and government. Mediums, Monks, and Amulets contests the viewpoint that supernatural elements within popular Buddhism are a symptom of the decline of the religion. Instead, it argues that this hybridity between traditional Buddhist beliefs and elements from other religions is in fact a symptom of the health and wealth of Buddhism, as it negotiates large‐scale commercialization and global modernity. What others are saying “Pattana Kitiarsa’s ability to weave his personal experiences in with sophisticated anthropological methods makes this book a fascinating and moving read. It is a welcome addition to the field and should be read by everyone interested in religion and modernity in Southeast Asia and beyond.”—Justin McDaniel, author of Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words (2008) and The Lovelorn Ghost and Magical Monk (2011) “Medium, Monks, and Amulets sheds light on the changing landscape of contemporary Thai religion that is increasingly influenced by ‘prosperity cults’ from both inside and outside the Buddhist establishment. This book helps us to make sense of the religious universe, where magic monks, spirit mediums, amulets, deities, and other religious commodities of different sorts keep appearing endlessly.”—Phra Paisal Visalo Highlights • Focused case studies on individual cult practices, including magic monks, spirit mediums, amulet cults, and other prosperity cults • Written by the perspective of an anthropologist who is also a follower of popular Buddhism • Discusses not only the interaction of popular Buddhist practices with modern‐day lawmakers, but also of nineteenth‐century royal interaction with supernatural cults
Author: Craig J. Reynolds
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2019-10-22
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1760463175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biographical study of an unusual southern policeman explores the relationship between religion and power in Thailand during the early twentieth century when parts of the country were remote and banditry was rife. Khun Phan (1898–2006), known as Lion Lawman, sometimes used rather too much lethal force in carrying out his orders. He was the most famous graduate of a monastic academy in the mid-south, whose senior teachers imparted occult knowledge favoured by fighters on both sides of the law. Khun Phan imbibed this knowledge to confront the risks and uncertainty that lay ahead and bolster his confidence and self-reliance for his struggle with adversaries. Against the background of national events, the story is rooted in the mid-south where the policeman was born and died. Based on a wide range of works in Thai language, on field trips to the region and on interviews with local and regional scholars as well as the policeman’s descendants, this generously illustrated book, accompanied by short video clips, brings to life the distinctive environment of the lakes district on the Malay Peninsula.
Author: Justin Thomas McDaniel
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2013-12-01
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 0231153775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on representations of a famous ghost and monk from the late eighteenth century to today, Justin Thomas McDaniel builds a case for interpreting modern Thai Buddhist practice through the movements of these transformative figures. He follows embodiments of the ghost and monk in a variety of genres and media, including biography, drama, ritual, art, liturgy, film, television, and the Internet. Sourcing nuns, monks, laypeople, and royalty, McDaniel shows how relations with these figures have been instrumental in crafting histories and modernities, particularly local conceptions of being "Buddhist," and the formation and transmission of such identities across different venues and technologies.
Author: Lyn Hamilton
Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToronto shopkeeper Lara McClintoch must sift through the layers of Bangkok society to find a fellow antique dealer--alive or dead.
Author: Lyn Hamilton
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 2004-03-02
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780425194874
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToronto shopkeeper Lara McClintoch heads for Bangkok to search for the truth about a missing antiques dealer, with only a fifty-year-old newspaper clipping about a murder and broken terracotta amulets as a clue to a deadly conspiracy and a family tragedy.
Author: Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-06-29
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780521277877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand. These saints originally pursued their salvation quest among the isolated villages of the country's periphery, but once recognized as holy men endowed with charisma, they became the radiating centres of a country-wide cult of amulets. The amulets, blessed by the saints, are avidly sought by royalty, ruling generals, intelligentsia and common folk alike for their alleged powers to influence the success of worldly transactions, whether political, economic, martial or romantic.
Author: Pattaratorn Chirapravati (M.L.)
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by a member of the Thai Royal Family, this is the first book to present a complete history of votive tablets in Thailand, covering their production from the sixth century AD to their present day manifestation in the popular practice of wearing amulets.
Author: Philip Cornwel-Smith
Publisher: River Books Press Dist A C
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering insight into contemporary Thai folk culture delves beyond the traditional Thai icons to reveal the casual, everyday expressions of Thainess that so delight and puzzle. From floral truck bolts and taxi altars to buffalo cart furniture and
Author: Justin Thomas McDaniel
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2010-12-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 029598922X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWinner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, Justin McDaniel traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values. He depicts Buddhism as a series of overlapping processes, bringing fresh attention to the continuities of Theravada monastic communities that have endured despite regional and linguistic variations. Incorporating both primary and secondary sources from Thailand and Laos, he examines premodern inscriptional, codicological, anthropological, art historical, ecclesiastical, royal, and French colonial records. By looking at modern sermons, and even television programs and websites, he traces how pedagogical techniques found in premodern palm-leaf manuscripts are pervasive in modern education. As the first comprehensive study of monastic education in Thailand and Laos, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words will appeal to a wide audience of scholars and students interested in religious studies, anthropology, social and intellectual history, and pedagogy.
