Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand
by Donald k. Swearer
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Motilal Banarsidass . Hardcover. New. Becoming the Buddha is the first booklength study of a key ritual of Buddhist practice in Asia : the consecraation of a Buddha image or "new Buddha," a ceremony by which the Buddha becomes present or alive. Through a richly detailed, accessible exploration of this ritual in northern Thailand, an exploration that stands apart from standard text-based or anthropological approaches, Donald Swearer makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Buddha image, its role in Buddhist devotional life, and its relationship to the veneration of Buddha relics. Blending ethnography, analysis, and Buddhist texts relates to this mimetic reenactment of the night of the Buddha's enlightenment, he demonstrates that the image becomes the Buddha's story and charged with the extraordinary power of Buddhahood. The process by which this transformation occurs through chant, sermon, meditation, and the presence of charismatic monks is at the heart of this book. Known as "opening the eyes of the Buddha," image consecration traditions throughout Buddhist Asia share much in cmmon. Within the cultural context of northern Thailand, Becoming the Buddha illuminaes scriptural accounts of the making of the first Buddha image; looks at debates over the ritual's historical origin, at Buddhological insights achieved, and at the hermeneutics of absence and presence; and provides a thematic comparison of several Buddhist traditions.
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- Title
- Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand
- Author
- Donald k. Swearer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 200
- ISBN 10
- 8120831098
- ISBN 13
- 9788120831094
- Publisher
- Motilal Banarsidass
- Place of Publication
- New Delhi, India
- This edition first published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in ThailandDonald k. Swearer
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