The Prabang Myths: The Sacred Narratives and their Cultural Meaning
... The Prabang myths that have been passed down from ancestors are aimed at expressing cultural meanings through a symbolism that binds the history of the Lao people, via a religious dialogue, to an ideological content, which, nevertheless, inspires a cultural awareness in Laos. Clifford Geertz defined ...
... The Prabang myths that have been passed down from ancestors are aimed at expressing cultural meanings through a symbolism that binds the history of the Lao people, via a religious dialogue, to an ideological content, which, nevertheless, inspires a cultural awareness in Laos. Clifford Geertz defined ...
modernization, social activism and the lao buddhist sangha1
... 2 The term is itself perhaps a misnomer. The question whether Buddhism has ever really been ‘disengaged from something’ is legitimate (Brown, 1997). However, the term has come into use since the 1950s and 1960s to refer to a diverse movement within Buddhism describing the reactions and initiatives o ...
... 2 The term is itself perhaps a misnomer. The question whether Buddhism has ever really been ‘disengaged from something’ is legitimate (Brown, 1997). However, the term has come into use since the 1950s and 1960s to refer to a diverse movement within Buddhism describing the reactions and initiatives o ...
Can things reach the dead?
... imbued with special qualities, in which objects in specific contexts and events become living beings or take on roles that are beyond their everyday use. There are numerous examples of what could be called “ontological shifts”: people slipping from one form of being into another, passing from one sp ...
... imbued with special qualities, in which objects in specific contexts and events become living beings or take on roles that are beyond their everyday use. There are numerous examples of what could be called “ontological shifts”: people slipping from one form of being into another, passing from one sp ...
Lao people
The Lao (Lao: ລາວ, Thai or Isan: ลาว, IPA: láːw) are an ethnic group native to Laos and northeastern Thailand (where they are known as Isan), they to the family of Tai peoples.