Self-immolation, Resistance and Millenarianism in Medieval Chinese Buddhism

Accounts of Buddhist monks and laymen who made offerings of their bodies by fire or other means often hint at larger themes of resistance to state authority and millenarian or Utopian hopes on the part of religious communities. I will put some of these sources, drawn from hagiographical collections...

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Veröffentlicht in:The medieval history journal 2014-10, Vol.17 (2), p.229-254
1. Verfasser: Benn, James A.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Accounts of Buddhist monks and laymen who made offerings of their bodies by fire or other means often hint at larger themes of resistance to state authority and millenarian or Utopian hopes on the part of religious communities. I will put some of these sources, drawn from hagiographical collections and commemorative inscriptions, into dialogue with each other and with other historical materials in order to reveal some of the larger forces at work behind (apparently) individual acts of self-immolation.
ISSN:0971-9458
0973-0753
DOI:10.1177/0971945814544561