Buddhist relics
Individual Documents
Description:
Introduction: "The
Saddhamma
Sangaha
is
a
work
of
14
century
AD
on
the
history
of
Buddhist
religion
and
Pali
Literature.
The
author
of
Saddhamma
Saṅ
gaha
is
Venerable
dhammakitti.
He
was
a
Thai
native
who,
being
desirous
of
coming
to
Ceylon
traveled
to
that
country
and
after
performing
meritorious
deeds
he
received
ordination
under
the
chief
monk.
While
he
was
staying
in
Ceylon
he
composed
this
work
by
Pāḷi
and
then
returns
to
his
native
land
and
lived
in
Thailand.
This
work
is
mentioned
as
Thai
Pāḷi
Text
by
H. Saddhātissa?s
Pāḷi
Literature
of
Thailand
(1979).
His
work
is
a
History
of
Buddhism
in
Ceylon.
It
has
eleven
chapters
and
contains
the
five
Buddhist
Council,
how
Buddha
Sāsanā
arrived
in
Ceylon,
the
life
and
literary
works
of
distinguished
commentator
Mahā
Buddhaghosa,
the
accounts
of
Tīkās
and
Ganthantara
treatises
and
the
advantage
of
writing
Piṭaka
Scriptures
and
advantage
of
listing
to
the
discourses.
It
was
published
in
Roman
Characters
edited
by
N.
Saddhānanda
of
1961.
In
Myanmar
no
manuscript
of
it
is
found
and
the
text
has
not
yet
been
studied.
It
is
assumed
that
once,
the
text
was
well
acknowledged
by
the
Myanmar
Buddhist
of
Kongbound
period
for
the
stanza
beginning
with
?Akkharā
ekamekaňca.....”
was
quoted
in
the
writings
on
the
cords
of
palm
leaf
manuscripts
belonging
to
that
period.
This
stanza
of
the
Saddhamma
Saṅgaha
is
found
nowhere
in
the
treatise
of
Pāli
Literature.
This
research
paper
will
be
described
in
the
five
sub
titles
as
follows.".....Paper delivered at the International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015.
San San Wai
Source/publisher:
International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies: Burma/Myanmar in Transition: Connectivity, Changes and Challenges: University Academic Service Centre (UNISERV), Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 24-26 July 2015
Date of publication:
2015-07-26
Date of entry/update:
2015-08-21
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Buddhist texts, Buddhist relics, Religion in Burma - general, Burmese Buddhism outside Burma, International Conference on Burma/Myanmar Studies (ICBMS) 23-26 July, 2015
Language:
English
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In this article, the author reconstructs and documents the story of the relics of the Buddha?s chief disciples, Sariputta and Moggallana, at the Kaba Aye Pagoda in Burma. Using previously unpublished archival materials, including first-hand archaeological reports and internal museum documents, as well as contemporary newspaper accounts, the author details the discovery of the relics by British military officers in 19th-century India, the subsequent removal of the relics to England where they were placed on museum exhibition, and their eventual reenshrinement in Burma and India 100 years later.
Jack Daulton
Source/publisher:
Journal of Burma Studies Vol. 4 (1999)
Date of publication:
1999-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2009-03-10
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Buddhist relics
Language:
English
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Description:
The veneration of Buddha relics and images is a neglected, yet central organizing principle of Theravada culture and religious practice. My essay is informed by a historised understanding of Eliade?s hierophany, a manifestation of a universal Buddhist sacred reality that defines and identifies cultural orders at the centers of local, historical contexts. I further rely on Bells? work on ritual and Gramsci?s writings on hegemony to describe Burmese veneration of the Buddha?s remains in diverse social and religious contexts. These range from the solitary practice, meditation and personal service in the Ananda mode to the Royal mode that defines social hierarchy in public rituals and expresses socio-religious aspirations of individuals and communities through culturally salient metaphors.
Juliane Schober
Source/publisher:
Journal of Burma Studies Vol. 6 (2001)
Date of publication:
2001-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2009-03-07
Grouping:
Individual Documents
Category:
Buddhist relics
Language:
English
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