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Table of Contents Notes 1-2 Abstract 3 Chapter One: Contemporary Meditation Practice in Burma The emergence of the Mahasi Thathana Yeikthar 4 Contemporary Mahasi Meditation Centre 6 Burma and Buddhism 8 Meditation: the Teaching of Buddha 9 Mahasi meditations 12 Vispassana and its techniques 14 Concept and function of Vispassana 17 Anthropology of religion and the changing practice of Buddhism 19 Endnotes 22-3 Chapter Two: Buddhism and Buddhist practice in early Burmese Politics Buddhism in early Burma 24 Theory of the early Buddhist state 26 Traditional ideas of individual and society 27 Classical Burmese states 30 Lay practice of Buddhism: king and Sangha 32
Roles of laity and monk 36 Purification and dependency between king and monk 38 Conclusion 40-2 Endnotes 43-5 Chapter Three: Mahasi Vispassana in the modern nation state of Burma The beginning of lay meditation practice in the colonial period 46 Colonialism, Buddhism, and Vispassana 51 Post-Independence Burma and Buddhist Revivalism 55 Mahasi and Buddhist Revivalism: the establishment of practice-oriented Buddhism 58 Mahasi Vispassana after 1962 61 The Burmese Way to Socialism and Mahasi meditations 64 Buddhism, the National League for Democracy (NLD), and the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) (1988-97)/ the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) (1997- ) military regimes 68 Political/ moral legitimacy 72 Anna/ Awsa and ritual hierarchy/individual spirituality 72 Mahasi and Buddhism in contemporary Burma 77 Endnotes 80-2 Conclusion 83-8
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Page 3: To my teachers with gratitude To my
Page 7 and 8: Notes about the English spellings o
Page 9 and 10: Abstract Changing Buddhist practice
Page 11 and 12: Burma. The establishment, which thi
Page 13 and 14: scores of children as well) sitting
Page 15 and 16: contrast an ideal life for laity, i
Page 17 and 18: the thirty-one planes of existence
Page 19 and 20: practise meditation they actually l
Page 21 and 22: involves a 'physical group' includi
Page 23 and 24: of the meditator, i.e. the changing
Page 25 and 26: Anthropology of religion and the ch
Page 27 and 28: way meditation is practised by the
Page 29 and 30: Concentration and filled with raptu
Page 31 and 32: Annawratha, after his military conq
Page 33 and 34: espoused by king and his court and
Page 35 and 36: This pulsating pattern is "a realis
Page 37 and 38: polity tradition as universal right
Page 39 and 40: Buddhist literature, and taught lai
Page 41 and 42: foremost merit maker needs the sang
Page 43 and 44: observing precepts, and listening t
Page 45 and 46: [strong king] might "attempt and ev
Page 47 and 48: parami meditation and satipatthana
Page 49 and 50: Endnotes I There are two major diff
Page 51 and 52: 23 Furnivall described the life sty
Page 53 and 54: Vispassana emerged in response to c
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always made an effort toward calmne
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With the breakdown of the tradition
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very distinctive. "Unlike the newly
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individual practice to cope with th
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government in 1954 hosted the inter
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Buddhism as the essential social an
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and its economic enterprises were t
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The first known reference to the id
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socialist economy. In the same way
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Under the socialist regimes, specif
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Secretary of NLD. They alleged she
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Aung San Suu Kyi practiced vispassa
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model, which is associated with NLD
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having the 'white elephants', 30 ha
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parami, and therefore redefines the
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had parami as teachers to give guid
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17 "Since 1988 over 5,000 Burmese M
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Conclusion This thesis has focused
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were increasingly aligned with soci
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seemed to be accompanied by more th
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irteinal-orul boundary Natcnal capi
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Sources: http://www.mahasi.com The
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Source: http://www.mahasi.org.mm/,
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Bentley, G. C. (1986). "Indigenous
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Houtman, G. (1997a). "Beyond the cr
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Min Si Thu (1992). Myan-mar-naing-n
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