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Buddhism and the spirit cults in North-east Thailand

Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja
  
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PREFACE
  
CONTENTS
  
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1 INTRODUCTION: THE PARTICULAR AND THE GENERAL
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2 THE STAGE AND ITS SETTING
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3 COSMOLOGY
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4 PRIMARY VILLAGE CONCEPTS
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5 THE INSTITUTION OF MONKHOOD IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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6 THE RULES OF CONDUCT FOR MONKS, NOVICES, AND LAYMEN
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7 THE PHASES OF MONKHOOD
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8 THE MONASTIC ROUTINE AND ITS REWARDS
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9 THE IDEOLOGY OF MERIT
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10 THE CYCLE OF COLLECTIVE `WAT' RITES AND THE AGRICULTURAL CALENDAR
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11 DEATH, MORTUARY RITES, AND THE PATH TO REBIRTH
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12 LIBERATION THROUGH HEARING: THE SACRED WORDS OF THE MONKS
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13 `SUKHWAN' RITES: THE ELDERS SUMMON THE SPIRIT ESSENCE
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14 THE CO-EXISTENCE OF THE `BRAHMAN' AND THE BUDDHIST MONK
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15 THE CULT OF THE GUARDIAN SPIRITS
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16 MYTH AND RITE: THE `NAGA' SYMBOL AND THE ROCKET FESTIVAL
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17 THE AFFLICTIONS CAUSED BY MALEVOLENT SPIRITS
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18 EXORCISM AS HEALING RITUAL
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19 A KALEIDOSCOPIC VIEW OF THE RELIGIOUS FIELD
  
CATEGORY DISTINCTIONS IN RITUAL OFFERINGS TO SUPERNATURALS
  
CONTRASTIVE FEATURES OF RITUAL FUNCTIONARIES
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CONTRASTS IN THE SCALE OF SOCIAL PARTICIPATION AND SIGNIFICATION
  
THE GRAMMAR OF RITUAL TRANSACTIONS
  
THREE USES OF SACRED WORDS
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20 THE PARADE OF SUPERNATURALS
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21 THE PAST AND PRESENT IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION: CONTINUITIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS

  
BIBLIOGRAPHY
  
INDEX
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ILLUSTRATIONS

PLATES

           
1a Image of the Buddha and royal Naga (snake),
Muchalinda [By permission of the National Museum, Bangkok] 		 facing page 148 
1b Mortuary rites: monks chanting and transferring merit to
the deceased 		 148 
2 The Bun Kathin procession at the end of Lent  149 
3 Bun Phraawes festival: the story of Wesandaun is recited  180 
4a Sukhwan ceremony being performed for two pregnant women  181 
4b Women worshipping  181 

FIGURES

           
1 Map of Thailand  page xii 
2 Baan Phraan Muan and its region  7 
3a Profile of house, showing levels  19 
3b House plan  19 
4 Diagram showing the relationship between two festivals  300 
5 The religious field  338 
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