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MEDITATION IN TAI NUEA LAY BUDDHIST PRACTICE
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- 자료유형학술지논문
- 저자명Wharton, David
- 학회/출판사/기관명Taylor & Francis
- 출판년도2019
- 언어영어
- 학술지명/학위논문주기CONTEMPORARY BUDDHISM
- 발행사항Vol.20No.1-2[2019]_x000D_
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- 소개/요약The Tai Nuea ethnolinguistic group is found on the periphery of Theravāda Buddhist influence in parts of southwestern China, northern Myanmar, and in small communities in northwestern Laos. Their relative isolation from mainstream reform movements indicates that they may have much to contribute to the understanding of pre-modern local, and especially lay, Buddhist practices in mainland Southeast Asia. This article focuses on weekly days of lay practice during the annual rainy season retreat in a Tai Nuea village in Mueang Sing, northwestern Laos. The practice is undertaken with an awareness of ageing and approaching death by both women and men who are mainly over 50 years of age. It is distinctly lay oriented and takes place with minimal input from the monastic community. There is extensive use of litany and Pāli phrases to request and to take leave of specific activities throughout the day, and during formal meditation small kammaṭṭhāna (meditation) manuals are worn on the head and the entire body is covered with a white cloth. Within a holistic framework of devotion to the Triple Gem and the practices of generosity and morality, meditation is seen as one important component of meritorious activity rather than as a tool for personal transformation.
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