The Study of Buddhist Self-Immolation Beyond Religious Tradition and Political Context: The Necessity of "Protogetical" Analysis

This article explores how scholarship on Buddhist self-immolation has changed between 1963 and 2013. Attention is given to how academic orientations and methods have evolved from early tensions between traditional exegesis of texts and sociopolitical analysis of context to recent literature utilizin...

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Main Author: Law, Easten G. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Common Ground Publishing 2017
In: The international journal of religion and spirituality in society
Year: 2017, Volume: 7, Issue: 3, Pages: 25-41
Further subjects:B Buddhism
B Methodology
B Self-immolation
B Religion And Politics
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