Becoming the buddha the ritual of image consecration in thailand Swearer, Donald K.

Warner, Cameron David

doi:10.2752/175183407x219831

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“…They are both (from my perspective at least) instantiations of the same lifestory. The same is true of what might be called ‘image‐buddhas’ who, at their consecration, are imbued with the bio‐blueprint as well (see Swearer 2004).…”

Section: Conclusion: Relics and Buddhasmentioning

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Two Buddha Relic Traditions

Strong¹

2007

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This article surveys some recent work on Buddhist relics, but with a particular focus. Starting with the observation that the distribution of the Buddha's relics in the Mahparinirva sūtra violates the Buddha's own injunction to keep his remains together in a single stūpa, it goes on to examine the fluctuation, in Buddhist legend, between traditions that assert the togetherness of the Buddha's relics and traditions that assert their dispersal. It then relates this polarity to buddhological issues concerning the uniqueness and multiplicity of buddhas and questions about their overlap.

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Section: Conclusion: Relics and Buddhasmentioning

confidence: 90%

Two Buddha Relic Traditions

Strong¹

2007

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“…Murals act as interpretive frames for viewing the Buddha image, hearing dhamma , receiving blessings from monks, etc. (Davis 1997, p. 6; Elkins 2002, p. 41‐42; Swearer 2004, 40). The murals help to frame or guide the attention and responses of the viewer looking at the main Buddha image and secondary images, and also the sermons listened to within the vihara .…”

Section: Meaning Importance Context and Powermentioning

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Initial Findings on Wat Suthat: Presence, Power, and Merit-Making in theViharaMurals and Inscriptions

Schmidt

2010

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This article examines the vihara mural of the Bangkok monastery Wat Suthat. Unlike most scholarship on Thai monastic murals and Buddhist murals in Southeast Asia which focus mainly on the content of the murals, this article focuses on the religious motivation for creating murals and examines the problems of viewing and understanding the mural within the context of a monastic building. This paper also examines the role of the Buddhavamsa commentary inscriptions on the walls of the vihara below the mural, showing how they like the murals assert a presence rather than a didactic function.

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“…Objects are purchased from shops specializing in sacred paraphernalia from a large market for Buddhist and other sacred images in the old part of Bangkok or from specialty shops often found in malls or department stores. Ideally, major objects of veneration (as opposed to minor charms) should be ritually animated by monks or shamans ( ajaan ), who transmit spiritual efficacy through chants or merit (Swearer, 2004). The Beckoning Lady, for example, would be blessed by an ajaan (perhaps a Buddhist nun), wearing white and fasting, in an all‐day ceremony that included the carving of 108 incantations into the image (Rajadhon, 1956).…”

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The Sacred Geography of Bangkok's Markets

Wilson

2008

Int J Urban Regional Res

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Vernacular shrines pervade the markets of Bangkok, the capital of Thailand and a globalized city in Southeast Asia. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Bangkok, this article traces the history of cross-border flows and shifting political economic arrangements that remapped the sacred geography of the city. It considers the consolidation of a pantheon of enchanted figures into a modern 'prosperity religion' that is practiced in commercial enterprises as well as in daily life across the country. Mapping the spiritual geography embodied in market shrines reveals changing mobilizations of local and transnational circuits of spiritual power in relation to the shifting national and transnational flows of material and cultural power. Copyright (c) 2008 The Author. Journal Compilation (c) 2008 Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Becoming the buddha the ritual of image consecration in thailand Swearer, Donald K.

Cited by 14 publications

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Two Buddha Relic Traditions

Two Buddha Relic Traditions

Initial Findings on Wat Suthat: Presence, Power, and Merit-Making in theViharaMurals and Inscriptions

The Sacred Geography of Bangkok's Markets

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