Champions of Buddhism
Subtitle: Weikza cults in contemporary Burma
By: edited by Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière, Guillaume Rozenberg, and Alicia Turner
Contributors: Brac de La Perrière, Bénédicte, editor; Rozenberg, Guillaume, editor; Turner, Alicia Marie, editor
Publisher: NUS Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9789971697808
Subjects: Religiöse Bewegung; Buddhist cults; Congresses; Fundamentalismus; Buddhismus; Weikza
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-246) and index.

In English.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: The other Burmese Buddhism  -- Kate Crosby; title: On saints and wizards: ideals of human perfection and power in contemporary Burmese Buddhism  -- Patrick Pranke; title: The longevity of weikza  -- Juliane Schober; title: Spirits versus weikza: two competing ways of mediation  -- Bénédicte Brac de La Perrière; title: The world emperor's battle against the evil forces  -- Niklas Foxeus; title: From bricks to pagodas: weikza specialists and the rituals of pagoda-building  -- Keiko Tosa; title: In pursuit of the sorcerer's power: sacred diagrams as technologies of potency  -- Thomas Patton; title: Healing through weikza: therapeutic cults in the Arakanese context  -- Céline Coderey; title: Powerful yet powerless, powerless yet powerful: being an exorcist in Burma  -- Guillaume Rozenberg -- Postscript.; title: What kind of Buddhism is that? -- Steven Collins.