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Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma

Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 2015, Vol.171 (2/3), p.372-373 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2015 authors ;Copyright Koninklijke Brill NV 2015 ;ISSN: 0006-2294 ;EISSN: 2213-4379 ;DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17102010

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  • Title:
    Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma
  • Author: Conway, Susan
  • Subjects: Buddhism ; Mediation ; Monks ; Negotiation ; Power ; Royalty
  • Is Part Of: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 2015, Vol.171 (2/3), p.372-373
  • Description: The first involves a historical analysis of power and its distribution between royalty, the sangha and weikza and later with authorities that replaced the monarchy. The next chapter explores therapeutic cults in Arakan and presents healing power in terms of hierarchy with, at the lowest level human knowledge for astrological calculations, spirit mediation for divination and at the highest level, weizka intervention to negotiate with the most powerful negative force. With initiation rites involving the ingestion of in and sama and tattooing on the upper body using a symbolic system established by a named master, an initiate becomes a conduit for the transmission of power.
  • Publisher: Leiden: Brill
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0006-2294
    EISSN: 2213-4379
    DOI: 10.1163/22134379-17102010
  • Source: Brill Open Access Journals
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