The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

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Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: December 2009
Print publication year:: 1984
Online ISBN:: 9780511558177
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558177

Subjects:: Buddhism and Eastern Religions, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Religion, Anthropology
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (49)

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The 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.

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Frontmatter
pp i-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgments
pp ix-x

Note on transcription
pp xi-xii

1 - Introduction and manifesto
pp 1-8

Part I - The arahant and the Path of Meditation
pp 9-10

2 - The Buddhist conception of the arahant
pp 11-27

3 - The Path of Purification: the ascetic practices
pp 28-37

4 - The stages and rewards of Buddhist meditation
pp 38-52

5 - The forest-monk tradition in Southeast Asia: a historical backdrop
pp 53-78

Part II - The hagiography of a Buddhist saint: text and context; the politics of sectarianism
pp 79-80

6 - The biography of a modern saint
pp 81-110

7 - The Buddha's life as paradigm
pp 111-123

8 - The ordering principles behind Buddhist saintly biography
pp 124-131

9 - The disciples of the Master
pp 132-141

10 - The biographer as exemplary forest-monk, meditator, and teacher
pp 142-153

11 - Sectarianism and the sponsorship of meditation
pp 154-167

12 - The Mahānikāi sect's propagation of lay meditation
pp 168-182

13 - The center–periphery dialectic: the Mahāthāt and Bovonniwet sponsorship of meditation compared
pp 183-192

Part III - The cult of amulets: the objectification and transmission of charisma
pp 193-194

14 - The cult of images and amulets
pp 195-207

15 - An enumeration of historic and popular amulets
pp 208-229

16 - The “likeness” of the image to the original Buddha: the case of the Siṅhala Buddha
pp 230-242

17 - The process of sacralizing images and amulets: the transfer of power by monks
pp 243-257

18 - Amulets blessed by contemporary forest saints
pp 258-273

19 - Saints on cosmic mountains
pp 274-290

Part IV - Conceptual and theoretical clarifications
pp 291-292

20 - A commentary on millennial Buddhism in Thailand and Burma
pp 293-320

21 - The sources of charismatic leadership: Max Weber revisited
pp 321-334

22 - The objectification of charisma and the fetishism of objects
pp 335-347

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