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Theravada traditions : Buddhist ritual cultures in contemporary Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka / John Clifford Holt.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Holt, John, 1948- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2017]
Subjects:	Theravāda Buddhism > Southeast Asia > Rituals. Theravāda Buddhism > Sri Lanka > Rituals. Buddhism and state > Southeast Asia. Buddhism and state > Sri Lanka.

Table of Contents:

Phra Bang : venerating the Buddha image in Lao religious culture
Asala Perahara : powers of the Buddha's tooth-relic in Sri Lanka
Upasampada and pabbajja : ordination in Thai Buddhist contexts
Kathina : making merit in modern Myanmar (Burma)
Pchum Ben : caring for the dead ritually in Cambodia
Appendixes. 1. The Dalada sirita ; 2. Randoli Perahara ; 3. Wat Phnom ; 4. The Feast of the Offering to the Dead.