Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar-Thai Border Region
Labour of Devotion: Material Construction and Charisma of Saintly Monks in the Myanmar-Thai Border Region
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虔诚的劳动：缅泰边境圣僧的物质建构与魅力
DOI：
10.1080/14442213.2022.2117405
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发表时间：
2023
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Yoko Hayami
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Curioni Arianna;Voinov Pavel;Allritz Matthias;Wolf Thomas;Call Josep;Knoblich G?nther;Voinov Pavel;Yoko Hayami
缅甸-泰国边境地区一直是受民众尊敬的魅力僧侣的舞台，他们遵循三种宗教传统：泰国北部的khrubaworship传统，边缘地区的缅甸佛教，以及寻求千禧年领袖的克伦族历史。他们的实践特点是建造大型佛教建筑；信徒团体的形成；禁欲和/或道德实践；以及包括少数民族在内的各种各样的追随者。这些建筑是由那些掌握政治和经济权力的人的捐款和信徒的大量劳动实现的。少数民族和贫困人口为宗教建设提供奉献的劳动，从僧侣的同情中获得营养。本文考察了宝塔等大型建筑结构的材料建造过程。这涉及到奉献者的劳动，在这种情况下，即克伦少数民族，这反过来又扩大了进一步造功的能力，从而增加了圣徒的魅力。
The Myanmar–Thai border area has been the stage for charismatic monks revered by the populace following three religious traditions: the northern Thai tradition ofkhrubaworship, Myanmar Buddhism in the peripheries, and Karen history of seeking variable millenarian leaders. Their practices are characterised by the construction of large Buddhist structures; the formation of a community of devotees; ascetic and/or moral practices; and a diversity of followers including ethnic minorities. The construction is enabled by donations from those wielding political and economic power, and through the massive labour of devotees. Minorities and impoverished populations provide the labour of devotion towards religious construction, gaining sustenance by the monk’s compassion. This article examines the process of material construction of enormous architectural structures such as pagodas. This involves the labour of devotees, in this case namely the Karen minorities, which in turn expands the capacity for further merit-making and thereby increases the saints’ charisma.