Book

On Saints and Wizards: Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism

Scholarly essay analyzing the Burmese weikza-do and the modern arahant as two competing ideals of human perfection, mapping the path of esoteric knowledge.

Author: Patrick Pranke
Type: Book
Written: 2010
Edition: 2014
Publisher: NUS Press (2014 chapter in 'Champions of Buddhism: Weikza Cults in Contemporary Burma'); orig. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies vol. 33 (2010)
Language: English
Tradition: Theravada

Where to find it

Open Buddhist University - citation page
JIABS (Heidelberg) article PDF