[PDF.36uk] Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)

Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory)

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 | #2154117 in Books |  2017-02-28 |  2017-02-28 | Original language:English | File type: PDF | 240 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This book deals with attempts by Burmese people to save ...|By Mitchell I. Bonner|This book deals with attempts by Burmese people to save the Buddhist religion when Burma was a British colony. The British India Colonial Government did not support the Buddhism religion; rather it supported Christian missionary organizations. The Burmese organized their own Buddhist organizations| |Turner has used a vast range of archival material gathered over the course of many years of fieldwork in Burma and in libraries and archives elsewhere. The resulting analysis is not only intellectually engaging and convincing, but also empirically satisfying.

Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sāsana, the life of the Buddha’s teachings. Burmese Buddhists interpreted the political and social changes between 1890 and 1920 as signs that the Buddha’s sāsana was deteriora...

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