essay
Respected grandfather, bless this Nissan: benevolent and politically neutral Bo Bo Gyi
Burma at the turn of the twenty-first century • Honolulu • Published In 2005 • Pages: 90-111
By: Sadan, Mandy.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a study of a particular deity in Burmese Buddhist pantheon, Bo Bo Gyi, 'Respected Grandfather.' The author is particularly interested in the Bo Bo Gyi statues in the different temples and shrines in the vicinity of Rangoon. He is curious why some statues are more venerated than others. While the state has built new temples for Bo Bo Gyi with impressive statues in an attempt to control and appropriate the cult, these are not the places that are well attended. Rather it is those statues and temples, the author concludes, with a deeper history, or mythology associated with them and located in specific place. The author also notes that although Bo Bo Gyi is not a nat, there is a pull to make him more nat-like.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Visual arts
- Miscellaneous government activities
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- 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.
- Historian
- 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
- 1996-1997
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1997
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Rangoon, Burma
- NotesAdditional notes
- Mandy Sadan
- for bibliographical references see document 39:Skidmore
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2005003440
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Burma--Social life and customs