RT Article
T1 La ceremonia de ordenación zen: etnografía de un rito de paso en el budismo argentino = The zen ordination ceremony : ethnography of a rite of passage in Argentine Buddhism
JF Ciencias sociales y religión
VO 11
IS 11
SP 157
OP 180
A1 Carini, Catón Eduardo
LA Spanish
YR 2009
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1784854980
AB This article is an ethnographic approach to the Argentinean Zen Buddhism passage rites, particularly the ones in monastic orders. Is explored the meaning of the sacred clothing (kesa) of the monks and its roll in both the social construction of ordination and the individual appropriation of certain ritual objects as symbols of subjective change. Then, the ceremony is described as, its different stages and its associated representations. Lastly, an interpretation of these practices is provided addressing the value they acquire as a mechanism of symbolic objectivity of a new religious habitus and as a way of including the practitioner in a sacred lineage that goes back in time to the very beginning of Buddhism.
K1 Argentina
K1 Habitus
K1 rites of passage
K1 Zen Buddhism
DO 10.22456/1982-2650.8364