The Political Significance of Religious Wealth in Burmese History
Some Further Thoughts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3607399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Victor Lieberman (University of Hertfordshire, corresponding author), Victor B Lieberman |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 753-769 |
| Publication date | 1980-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2055181 |
| OpenAlex | W1996126848 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 3 |
This article examines the recent assertion by a scholar of Burmese history that extensive landholding by the Buddhist monkhood helped to undermine every dynasty between the ninth and nineteenth century. It argues that religious wealth, possibly before the fifteenth century and certainly after that period, was less significant than has been suggested, and that the institutional relation between throne and monkhood was by no means static. During the later dynasties, secular elites represented the principal threat to the centralization of resources. Further, in certain instances, royal purification of the Religion sought not to deprive the monkhood of wealth, but to strengthen both the Religion and the crown at the expense of private lay interests
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Assertion · Buddhism · Burmese · Economic history · Fifteenth · Ninth · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Principal (computer security) · Relation (database · Sociology · Throne · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Eurasian Exchange Networks · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,31 |
| Citation span | 1981 - 2016 (36) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |