Saving Buddhism: The Impermanence of Religion in Colonial Burma

by Alicia Turner

Book Overview

Saving Buddhism explores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. For many Burmese, the salient and ordering discourse was not nation or modernity but sāsana, the life of the Buddha's teachings. Burmese Buddhists interpreted the political and social changes between 1890 and 1920 as signs that the Buddha's sāsana was deteriorating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082487286X
• ISBN13: 9780824872861
• Release Date: February 2017
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"