essay
Women's practices of renunciation in the age of Sāsana revival
Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century • Honolulu • Published In 2005 • Pages: 41-64
By: Jordt, Ingrid.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an account of a lay meditation movement which followed the destruction of the Buddhist monarchy at the end of the nineteenth century and gave rise to a new class of Buddhist nuns. The movement focused on universal salvation and represented an opening up of Buddhist merit-making practices to laity. Movement leaders encouraged all members of society to strive for Nirvana. The movement was opened to women and one of its effects was an accommodation of gender and enlightenment, previously the exclusive purview of monks. The author discusses the location and status of this class of Buddhist nuns in Burmese society today.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural goals
- Gender status
- Eschatology
- Theological systems
- Asceticism
- Prophets and ascetics
- Congregations
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Burmans
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2011
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1988-2003
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1940-2003
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rangoon, Burma
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ingrid Jordt
- for bibliographical references see document 39:Skidmore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2005003440
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Burma--Social life and customs