(SUNY Series in Religious Studies ) Donald K. Swearer-The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia, Second Edition -State University of New York Press (2010).pdf

The buddhist
world of Southeast Asia
Second Edition
Donald K. Swearer
The Buddhist World of Southeast Asia
SUNY series in Religious Studies
Harold Coward, editor
The BUDDHIST
WORLD of Southeast Asia
Second Edition
Donald K. Swearer
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Swearer, Donald K., 1934-
The Buddhist world of Southeast Asia / Donal K. Swearer. — 2nd ed.
p. cm. —(SUNY series in religious studies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4384-3251-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4384-3250-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1. Buddhism—Social aspects—Southeast Asia. I. Title.
2010
’370959—dc22 2009039613
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
In memory of
h K. S. Ch’en and Singkha Wannasi,
mentors and friends
Contents
Preface to the Second Edition..........ix
Acknowledgments ............xiii
Introduction ..............xv
PART I. THE POPULAR TRADITION ...... 1
Ideal Action ............. 4
Ritual Occasions, Merit, and the Appropriation of Power . . 17
Festivals ..............37
Rites of Passage ............ 50
PART II. BUDDHISM AND THE STATE ...... 71
Asoka, the Exemplary Buddhist Ruler ....... 72
Kings and Cosmology...........82
The Cosmological Scheme of the Three Worlds.....101
The Buddha as Cosmocrator .........104
Modern N