Burmese Monk S Tales

Author : Maung Htin Aung
Publisher : Pariyatti Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781938754401

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Burmese Monk's Tales by Maung Htin Aung Pdf

The tales contained in this collection were first told in the dark decade of Burmese history (1876–85) during the coming event of the British conquest. The stories combine exotic background with strong details that offer the Western reader both a picture of Burma in the nineteenth century and an understanding of the basic good sense, gaiety, and gentleness of the Burmese people and the Buddhist clergy. The characters that appear in the book illustrate timeless truths about human nature, which today's reader can apply to existing people and situations. For the first time since the eleventh century the future of Burmese Buddhism became uncertain, and there was widespread fear, both in Upper Burma still under a Burmese king and in Lower Burma already under British rule, that the final fall of the Burmese kingdom would result in the total extinction of both the national religion and the Burmese way of life. Told with the purpose of allaying this anxiety and fear, these tales give a full and faithful résumé and appraisal of the position of Burmese Buddhism on the eve of the British conquest of 1886.

Author : Maung Htin Aung
Publisher : Pariyatti Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1681723271

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Burmese Monk's Tales by Maung Htin Aung Pdf

The tales contained in this collection were first told in the dark decade of Burmese history (1876-85) during the coming event of the British conquest. The stories combine exotic background with strong details that offer the Western reader both a picture of Burma in the nineteenth century and an understanding of the basic good sense, gaiety, and gentleness of the Burmese people and the Buddhist clergy. The characters that appear in the book illustrate timeless truths about human nature, which today's reader can apply to existing people and situations. For the first time since the eleventh century the future of Burmese Buddhism became uncertain, and there was widespread fear, both in Upper Burma still under a Burmese king and in Lower Burma already under British rule, that the final fall of the Burmese kingdom would result in the total extinction of both the national religion and the Burmese way of life. Told with the purpose of allaying this anxiety and fear, these tales give a full and faithful résumé and appraisal of the position of Burmese Buddhism on the eve of the British conquest of 1886. (Note: This title was previously published under ISBN 9781681720487. Due to technical issues a new ISBN had to be assigned. Rest assured that both versions of this title are exactly the same.)

Author : Saṅgajā (Cha rā toʻ)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Tales
ISBN : IND:30000118529431

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Burmese Monk's Tales by Saṅgajā (Cha rā toʻ) Pdf

Author : Thant Myint-U,Thant Myint-U.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521799147

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The Making of Modern Burma by Thant Myint-U,Thant Myint-U. Pdf

Burma has often been portrayed as a timeless place, a country of egalitarian Buddhist villages, ruled successively by autocratic kings, British colonialists and, most recently, a military dictatorship. The Making of Modern Burma argues instead that many aspects of Burmese society today, from the borders of the state to the social structure of the countryside to the very notion of a Burmese identity, are largely the creations of the nineteenth century - a period of great change - away from the Ava-based polity of early modern times, and towards the 'British Burma' of the 1900s. The book provides a sophisticated and much-needed account of the period, and as such will be an important resource for policy makers and students as a basis for understanding contemporary politics and the challenges of the modern state. It will also be read by historians interested in the British colonial expansion of the nineteenth century.

Author : Gerry Abbott
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004118128

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The Folk-Tales of Burma by Gerry Abbott Pdf

This handbook is the first in-depth overview of the fascinating world of Burmese folk-tales. Part one provides a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary survey of folk-tale studies, together with a broad functional classification of Burma's tales. Part two presents, mostly for the first time in a European language, the categorized actual tales themselves. With commentaries on plots and cross-cultural motifs - past and present. With index, substantial bibliography, and suggestions for further research.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781621968658

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Narrative Structures in Burmese Folk Tales by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gerry Abbott,Han Khin Thant
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004392052

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The Folk-tales of Burma by Gerry Abbott,Han Khin Thant Pdf

This handbook is the first in-depth overview of the fascinating world of Burmese folk-tales. Part one provides a wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary survey of folk-tale studies, together with a broad functional classification of Burma’s tales. Part two presents, mostly for the first time in a European language, the categorized actual tales themselves. With commentaries on plots and cross-cultural motifs - past and present. With index, substantial bibliography, and suggestions for further research.

Author : Alexandra Green
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789888390885

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Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings by Alexandra Green Pdf

Step into a Burmese temple built between the late seventeenth and early nineteenth centuries and you are surrounded by a riot of color and imagery. The majority of the highly detailed wall paintings displays Buddhist biographical narratives, inspiring the devotees to follow the Buddha’s teachings. Alexandra Green goes one step further to consider the temples and their contents as a whole, arguing that the wall paintings mediate the relationship between the architecture and the main Buddha statues in the temples. This forges a unified space for the devotees to interact with the Buddha and his community, with the aim of transforming the devotees’ current and future lives. These temples were a cohesively articulated and represented Burmese Buddhist world to which the devotees belonged. Green’s visits to more than 160 sites with identifiable subject matter form the basis of this richly illustrated volume, which draws upon art historical, anthropological, and religious studies methodologies to analyze the wall paintings and elucidate the contemporary religious, political, and social concepts that drove the creation of this lively art form. “Buddhist Visual Cultures, Rhetoric, and Narrative in Late Burmese Wall Paintings is truly a tour de force that allows us to see Burmese temple paintings of the Life of the Buddha and similar themes as an open-ended genre that, like literary discourse, participates in wider social, intellectual, and religious contexts.” —Juliane Schober, Arizona State University “Alexandra Green introduces this relatively unknown material and subjects it to sophisticated analysis. This study is major step towards creating a template that could be used for analyzing other late traditions of Buddhist painting.” —Janice Leoshko, University of Texas at Austin

Author : Patricia M. Herbert
Publisher : Oxford, England ; Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001731210

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Burma by Patricia M. Herbert Pdf

Author : Bertil Lintner,Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Publisher : Human Rights Watch
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Buddhism and politics
ISBN : 9781564325440

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The Resistance of the Monks by Bertil Lintner,Human Rights Watch (Organization) Pdf

This 99-page report written by longtime Burma watcher Bertil Lintner, describes the repression Burma's monks experienced after they led demonstrations against the government in September 2007. The report tells the stories of individual monks who were arrested, beaten and detained. Two years after Buddhist monks marched down the street of the detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, hundreds of monks are in prison and thousands remain fearful of military repression. Many have left their monasteries and returned to their villages or sought refuge abroad, while those who remained in their monasteries live under constant surveillance--Human Rights Watch web site.

Author : Kevin Crossley-Holland
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0192781480

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Short! by Kevin Crossley-Holland Pdf

The longest of the stories in this book is short, and the shortest is just one sentence long. Which means there are lots of stories : a whole bookful to make you think, laugh, Shiver, and think again.

Author : Takeuchi Yoshinori
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994-12-31
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 8120812557

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Buddhist Spirituality (Vol. 1) Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, Early Chinese by Takeuchi Yoshinori Pdf

The present volume is part of a series entitled World Spirituality: An Encyclopedic History of the Religious Quest, which seeks to present the spiritual wisdom of the human race in its historical unfolding. The volume presents the richness of the spiritual heritage of the human race and designed to reflect the autonomy of the traditional in its historical development.

Author : Kirin Narayan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780812205831

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Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels by Kirin Narayan Pdf

Swamiji, a Hindu holy man, is the central character of Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels. He reclines in a deck chair in his modern apartment in western India, telling subtle and entertaining folk narratives to his assorted gatherings. Among the listeners is Kirin Narayan, who knew Swamiji when she was a child in India and who has returned from America as an anthropologist. In her book Narayan builds on Swamiji's tales and his audiences' interpretations to ask why religious teachings the world over are so often couched in stories. For centuries, religious teachers from many traditions have used stories to instruct their followers. When Swamiji tells a story, the local barber rocks in helpless laughter, and a sari-wearing French nurse looks on enrapt. Farmers make decisions based on the tales, and American psychotherapists take notes that link the storytelling to their own practices. Narayan herself is a key character in this ethnography. As both a local woman and a foreign academic, she is somewhere between participant and observer, reacting to the nuances of fieldwork with a sensitivity that only such a position can bring. Each story s reproduced in its evocative performance setting. Narayan supplements eight folk narratives with discussions of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes. All these stories focus on the complex figure of the Hindu ascetic and so sharpen our understanding of renunciation and gurus in South Asia. While Storytellers, Saints, and Scoundrels raises provocative theoretical issues, it is also a moving human document. Swamiji, with his droll characterizations, inventive mind, and generous spirit, is a memorable character. The book contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on narrative. It will be particularly valuable to students and scholars of anthropology, folklore, performance studies, religions, and South Asian studies.

Author : Jonathan H. X. Lee,Kathleen Nadeau
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1498 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313350672

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Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife [3 volumes] by Jonathan H. X. Lee,Kathleen Nadeau Pdf

This comprehensive compilation of entries documents the origins, transmissions, and transformations of Asian American folklore and folklife. Equally instructive and intriguing, the Encyclopedia of Asian American Folklore and Folklife provides an illuminating overview of Asian American folklore as a way of life. Surveying the histories, peoples, and cultures of numerous Asian American ethnic and cultural groups, the work covers everything from ancient Asian folklore, folktales, and folk practices that have been transmitted and transformed in America to new expressions of Asian American folklore and folktales unique to the Asian American historical and contemporary experiences. The encyclopedia's three comprehensive volumes cover an extraordinarily wide range of Asian American cultural and ethnic groups, as well as mixed-race and mixed-heritage Asian Americans. Each group section is introduced by a historical overview essay followed by short entries on topics such as ghosts and spirits, clothes and jewelry, arts and crafts, home decorations, family and community, religious practices, rituals, holidays, music, foodways, literature, traditional healing and medicine, and much, much more. Topics and theories are examined from crosscultural and interdisciplinary perspectives to add to the value of the work.

Author : Jan-Philipp Sendker,Lorie Karnath,Jonathan Sendker
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781590519653

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The Long Path to Wisdom by Jan-Philipp Sendker,Lorie Karnath,Jonathan Sendker Pdf

From the author of the internationally bestselling The Art of Hearing Heartbeats comes this charming collection of folktales that offer a window into Burma’s fascinating history and culture. Since 1995 Jan-Philipp Sendker has visited Myanmar (Burma) dozens of times, and while doing research for his novels The Art of Hearing Heartbeats and A Well-Tempered Heart, he encountered numerous folktales and fables. These moving stories speak to the rich mythology of the diverse peoples of Burma, the spirituality of humankind, and the profound social impact of Buddhist thought. Some are so strange he couldn’t classify them or identify a familiar moral, while others reminded him of the fairy tales of his childhood, except that here monkeys, tigers, elephants, and crocodiles inhabited the fantastic lands instead of hedgehogs, donkeys, or geese. Their morals resemble those of the Brothers Grimm or Hans Christian Andersen, illustrating how all cultures draw on a universal wisdom to create their myths. The Long Path to Wisdom’s evocative stories run the gamut of human emotions, from the familiar to the shocking, and are sure to delight fans of The Art of Hearing Heartbeats as well as those newly discovering the magic of Sendker’s incandescent writing.