The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma, by Ward Keeler. Honolulu: University of Hawai’I Press, 2017. 350 pp., $72 (hb), $30 (pb). ISBN: 978-0-82-486594-8 (hb), 978-0-82-488312-6 (pb).
{"title":"The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma, by Ward Keeler","authors":"Tracy Coleman","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19259","url":null,"abstract":"The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma, by Ward Keeler. Honolulu: University of Hawai’I Press, 2017. 350 pp., $72 (hb), $30 (pb). ISBN: 978-0-82-486594-8 (hb), 978-0-82-488312-6 (pb).","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44618933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The article explores a syncretic form of Islam in India in the context of the emergence of essentialist and puritanical religious discourses. The changes that such discourses can bring in the moral constitution of Muslims can disturb their harmonious integration with the religio-cultural elements of their immediate environment. The historical analysis of this phenomenon traces the syncretic nature of the social and economic exchanges between Hindus and Muslims, convergence of the spiritual aspects of bhakti and Sufism, and how Sufi shrines became cultural centres for both Muslims and Hindus. The article also situates the Moplah Rebellion in the context of syncretism in Kerala. The study makes an in-depth inquiry into the syncretic form of Islam prevailing in the dargahs in the state. The inquiry should aid understanding of the present state of syncretic identification among Muslims in Kerala.
{"title":"Religious Syncretism among Indian Muslims and Its Manifestation in Dargah Practices","authors":"R. H. Samseer, R. Beegom","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19250","url":null,"abstract":"The article explores a syncretic form of Islam in India in the context of the emergence of essentialist and puritanical religious discourses. The changes that such discourses can bring in the moral constitution of Muslims can disturb their harmonious integration with the religio-cultural elements of their immediate environment. The historical analysis of this phenomenon traces the syncretic nature of the social and economic exchanges between Hindus and Muslims, convergence of the spiritual aspects of bhakti and Sufism, and how Sufi shrines became cultural centres for both Muslims and Hindus. The article also situates the Moplah Rebellion in the context of syncretism in Kerala. The study makes an in-depth inquiry into the syncretic form of Islam prevailing in the dargahs in the state. The inquiry should aid understanding of the present state of syncretic identification among Muslims in Kerala.","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":"13 1","pages":"76–98-76–98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43722499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editorial","authors":"S. Brodbeck, D. Killingley, Anna King","doi":"10.1558/rosa.19244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/rosa.19244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44966706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction, by Keye Maitra","authors":"Suganya Anandakichenin","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19252","url":null,"abstract":"Philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita: A Contemporary Introduction, by Keye Maitra. London: Bloomsbury, 2018. 204 pp., £54 (hb), £17.09 (pb), £13.67 (eBook). ISBN: 978-1-35-004019-9 (hb), 978-1-35-004018-2 (pb), 978-1-35-004017-5 (eBook).","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":"13 1","pages":"114–115-114–115"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48209786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Chinese Ekottarika Agama (EA) stands out among the four Pali Nikayas and the corresponding four Chinese Agamas, which are supposed to be collections of early Buddhist texts. My study of anomalies in a sutta of EA reveals that it is a composite of various textual sources. The original translation of this sutta, presumably non-numerical, was merged with a much shorter, numerical sutta in the process of forming the extant sutta. Zhu Fonian was not satisfied with his original translation of EA, which was carried out under difficult circumstances. As time went by, he had access to other Indic sources and Chinese translations, which could have enabled him to improve this translation. On the other hand, he modified part of his translation in such a creative way that it deviates significantly from the Indic original. Thus our sutta incorporated some new elements, including an episode adapted from a passage in Dharmaraksa’s translation of a Mahayana text. Therefore, Moggallana’s travel to the Brahma Heaven in the original translation was turned into a journey to another buddhafield in the revised version. The religious milieu may have prompted Zhu Fonian to draw upon the Mahayana texts, especially those translated by Dharmaraksa, when revising his translation of EA.
{"title":"Moggallana’s Journey to Another Buddha-field","authors":"Tse-fu Kuan","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19247","url":null,"abstract":"The Chinese Ekottarika Agama (EA) stands out among the four Pali Nikayas and the corresponding four Chinese Agamas, which are supposed to be collections of early Buddhist texts. My study of anomalies in a sutta of EA reveals that it is a composite of various textual sources. The original translation of this sutta, presumably non-numerical, was merged with a much shorter, numerical sutta in the process of forming the extant sutta. Zhu Fonian was not satisfied with his original translation of EA, which was carried out under difficult circumstances. As time went by, he had access to other Indic sources and Chinese translations, which could have enabled him to improve this translation. On the other hand, he modified part of his translation in such a creative way that it deviates significantly from the Indic original. Thus our sutta incorporated some new elements, including an episode adapted from a passage in Dharmaraksa’s translation of a Mahayana text. Therefore, Moggallana’s travel to the Brahma Heaven in the original translation was turned into a journey to another buddhafield in the revised version. The religious milieu may have prompted Zhu Fonian to draw upon the Mahayana texts, especially those translated by Dharmaraksa, when revising his translation of EA.","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":"13 1","pages":"24–50-24–50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48334273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Karel Werner (12 January 1925—26 November 2019)","authors":"D. Killingley, Anna S. King","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19245","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":"13 1","pages":"8–15-8–15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49668448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article is an iconographic study of four sculptures from northern Bengal, of four female deities associated with Vajrayana Buddhist and Brahmanical cultic and religious practices: Aparajita, Rudra-Camunda, a snake goddess, and Mesavahini Sarasvati. They are housed at the Akshaya Kumar Maitreya Heritage Museum in North Bengal University, the Balurghat College Museum and the Coochbehar Palace Museum—three regional museums in northern West Bengal. Their provenance indicates that they were produced in the heart of the Varendri region, in present-day West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh. This study sheds light on the background in which these images were conceived—that of the co-existence of Vajrayana Buddhist practices and philosophy, several major and minor Brahmanical cults, and other local religious practices whose existence pre-dates both Buddhism and organized Brahmanism.
{"title":"Popular Religion in the Pala Period","authors":"Archishman Sarker","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19249","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an iconographic study of four sculptures from northern Bengal, of four female deities associated with Vajrayana Buddhist and Brahmanical cultic and religious practices: Aparajita, Rudra-Camunda, a snake goddess, and Mesavahini Sarasvati. They are housed at the Akshaya Kumar Maitreya Heritage Museum in North Bengal University, the Balurghat College Museum and the Coochbehar Palace Museum—three regional museums in northern West Bengal. Their provenance indicates that they were produced in the heart of the Varendri region, in present-day West Bengal (India) and Bangladesh. This study sheds light on the background in which these images were conceived—that of the co-existence of Vajrayana Buddhist practices and philosophy, several major and minor Brahmanical cults, and other local religious practices whose existence pre-dates both Buddhism and organized Brahmanism.","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":"13 1","pages":"51–75-51–75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45921546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies, by Oliver Freiberger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 256 pp., £64 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19996-500-7.
{"title":"Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies, by Oliver Freiberger","authors":"N. Appleton","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19258","url":null,"abstract":"Considering Comparison: A Method for Religious Studies, by Oliver Freiberger. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 256 pp., £64 (hb). ISBN 978-0-19996-500-7.","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":"13 1","pages":"119–121-119–121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42661107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Calcutta Yoga: Buddha Bose and the Yoga Family of Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda, by Jerome Armstrong. New Alexandria, VA: Webstrong LLC Publishing, 2018. vii + 652 pp., £52 (pb). ISBN 978-0-69211-671-5 (pb).
{"title":"Calcutta Yoga: Buddha Bose and the Yoga Family of Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda, by Jerome Armstrong","authors":"P. McCartney","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19253","url":null,"abstract":"Calcutta Yoga: Buddha Bose and the Yoga Family of Bishnu Ghosh and Yogananda, by Jerome Armstrong. New Alexandria, VA: Webstrong LLC Publishing, 2018. vii + 652 pp., £52 (pb). ISBN 978-0-69211-671-5 (pb).","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":"13 1","pages":"116–118-116–118"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45444745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination, by Reiko Ohnuma. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xix + 242 pp., $36.95 (hb; also available as an e-book). ISBN-9780190637545.
{"title":"Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination, by Reiko Ohnuma.","authors":"Herman Tull","doi":"10.1558/ROSA.19283","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/ROSA.19283","url":null,"abstract":"Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist Imagination, by Reiko Ohnuma. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xix + 242 pp., $36.95 (hb; also available as an e-book). ISBN-9780190637545.","PeriodicalId":38179,"journal":{"name":"Religions of South Asia","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67682448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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