Name: Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution
ISBN: 978-94-017-6283-0

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages I-XXIX

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The Buddhist Tradition of Burma’s History
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 1-9
Buddhist Traditions about a Perfect Society, Its Decline and the Origin of the State
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 10-16
Republican Institutions in PRE-Buddhist India and in the Buddhist Order
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 17-25
The Buddhist Welfare State of Ashoka
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Pages 26-32
Survival of Ashokan Social and Political Traditions in Theravâda Kingship
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 33-36
On the Problem of Social Ethics of Theravâda Buddhism
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 37-42
Emergence of the Bodhisattva Ideal of Kingship in Theravâda Buddhism
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 43-48
Pre-Buddhist Fertility Elements of the Charisma of Burmese Kingship
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Pages 49-53
Economic Implications of the Buddhist Ideal of Kingship
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Pages 54-58
The Bodhisattva Ideal of Burmese Kingship
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 59-67
Kamma and Buddhist Merit-Causality as Rationale for Medieval Burma’s Social Order
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 68-74
Buddhist Ethics Against the Pragmatism of Power under the Burmese Kings
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 75-81
Static Cosmological Models for the Medieval Burmese State as Microcosm
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 82-86
Hindu-Buddhist Universalist Ideals of a World State
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 87-92
The Cakkavattî Ideal as a Factor in the Expansion and Fall of the Burmese Empire
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 93-97
Burma’s Ideological Crisis in the British Conquest
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Pages 98-109
The Dis-Establishment of Burmese Buddhism. Protestant Missionary Attack and Modernistic Buddhist Response
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 110-119
The White Man’s Burden of Educating Natives for Self-Government and the Counter-Claim about the Democratic and Socialistic Heritage of Buddhism
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 120-127
Political Activization Trends within Burmese Buddhism and the Beginnings of Modern Burma’s Independence Struggle
- E. Sarkisyanz
Pages 128-135

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Freiburg University, Germany

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Book Title: Buddhist Backgrounds of the Burmese Revolution
Authors: E. Sarkisyanz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6283-0
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1965
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-5830-7Published: 01 January 1965
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-6283-0Published: 11 November 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 250
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Political Science

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