Jotika Khur-Yearn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4689792 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jotika Khur-Yearn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jotika |
| FAMILY NAME | Khur-Yearn |
| SIGNATURE | KHUR-YEARN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5461-0774 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Traditional and Modern Meditation Practices in Shan Buddhist Communities
This article explores how meditation is inculcated throughout the life of Shan Buddhists using poetic phrasing and texts, culminating in several forms of meditation as part of the practice of temple-sleeping undertaken by lay Buddhist seniors from the age of 40 upwards. I look at how the poetic texts, lik loung, that form the basis of temple-sleeping practice, may have shifted in content in the 19th to 20th centuries to focus on meditation topics…
Poetic Dhamma and the Zare
In the Theravada Buddhism of the Shan peoples of northern Burma and Thailand, the main medium for the transmission of complex teachings is an elaborate form of poetry. The scholars who preserve and perform the readings of such teachings are called zare. Mostly they are laymen, although some are women and a few are monks. This article examines how the zare acquire their extraordinary erudition, the challenges confronting the tradition in the face …
Richness Of Buddhist Texts In Shan Manuscripts
Streams of the salween
Poetic Dhamma and the Zare
In the Theravada Buddhism of the Shan peoples of northern Burma and Thailand, the main medium for the transmission of complex teachings is an elaborate form of poetry. The scholars who preserve and perform the readings of such teachings are called zare. Mostly they are laymen, although some are women and a few are monks. This article examines how the zare acquire their extraordinary erudition, the challenges confronting the tradition in the face …
Richness Of Buddhist Texts In Shan Manuscripts
Streams of the salween
Poetic Dhamma and the Zare
In the Theravada Buddhism of the Shan peoples of northern Burma and Thailand, the main medium for the transmission of complex teachings is an elaborate form of poetry. The scholars who preserve and perform the readings of such teachings are called zare. Mostly they are laymen, although some are women and a few are monks. This article examines how the zare acquire their extraordinary erudition, the challenges confronting the tradition in the face …
Traditional and Modern Meditation Practices in Shan Buddhist Communities
This article explores how meditation is inculcated throughout the life of Shan Buddhists using poetic phrasing and texts, culminating in several forms of meditation as part of the practice of temple-sleeping undertaken by lay Buddhist seniors from the age of 40 upwards. I look at how the poetic texts, lik loung, that form the basis of temple-sleeping practice, may have shifted in content in the 19th to 20th centuries to focus on meditation topics…
Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (4 works) · Buddhism (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works)