Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > The Making of a Buddhist Heretic

Research

Electronic data

  • JBLS article by Kawanami 2021

    Accepted author manuscript, 451 KB, PDF document

    Available under license: CC BY-NC: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Keywords

View graph of relations

The Making of a Buddhist Heretic: A Case Study of Sky-Blue Sect

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Published

Standard

The Making of a Buddhist Heretic: A Case Study of Sky-Blue Sect. / Kawanami, Hiroko.
In: Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society, Vol. 6, No. 2020-2021, 31.12.2020.

Research output: Contribution to Journal/Magazine › Journal article › peer-review

Harvard

Kawanami, H 2020, 'The Making of a Buddhist Heretic: A Case Study of Sky-Blue Sect', Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society, vol. 6, no. 2020-2021.

APA

Kawanami, H. (2020). The Making of a Buddhist Heretic: A Case Study of Sky-Blue Sect. Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society, 6(2020-2021).

Vancouver

Kawanami H. The Making of a Buddhist Heretic: A Case Study of Sky-Blue Sect. Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society. 2020 Dec 31;6(2020-2021).

Author

Kawanami, Hiroko. / The Making of a Buddhist Heretic : A Case Study of Sky-Blue Sect. In: Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society. 2020 ; Vol. 6, No. 2020-2021.

Bibtex

@article{44c9aec5fbf745cda0285fdd16909d91,
title = "The Making of a Buddhist Heretic: A Case Study of Sky-Blue Sect",
abstract = "I examine M{\`o}pyar Gaing: a new Buddhist sect that came to prominence in Myanmar in the 1980s and its founder monk; U Nyanar, who was arrested in the early 1980s for propagating the concept of {\textquoteleft}this-worldly karma{\textquoteright}, which posed a major challenge to traditional beliefs in karmic causality and rebirth in the conservative Theravada tradition. The article examines how his re-interpretation of Buddhist doctrine brought against him charges of heresy and eventually led to lengthy prison terms until his release in 2016.",
keywords = "Buddhist heretic, Vinaya court",
author = "Hiroko Kawanami",
year = "2020",
month = dec,
day = "31",
language = "English",
volume = "6",
journal = "Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society",
issn = "2475-9279",
number = "2020-2021",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - The Making of a Buddhist Heretic

T2 - A Case Study of Sky-Blue Sect

AU - Kawanami, Hiroko

PY - 2020/12/31

Y1 - 2020/12/31

N2 - I examine Mòpyar Gaing: a new Buddhist sect that came to prominence in Myanmar in the 1980s and its founder monk; U Nyanar, who was arrested in the early 1980s for propagating the concept of ‘this-worldly karma’, which posed a major challenge to traditional beliefs in karmic causality and rebirth in the conservative Theravada tradition. The article examines how his re-interpretation of Buddhist doctrine brought against him charges of heresy and eventually led to lengthy prison terms until his release in 2016.

AB - I examine Mòpyar Gaing: a new Buddhist sect that came to prominence in Myanmar in the 1980s and its founder monk; U Nyanar, who was arrested in the early 1980s for propagating the concept of ‘this-worldly karma’, which posed a major challenge to traditional beliefs in karmic causality and rebirth in the conservative Theravada tradition. The article examines how his re-interpretation of Buddhist doctrine brought against him charges of heresy and eventually led to lengthy prison terms until his release in 2016.

KW - Buddhist heretic

KW - Vinaya court

M3 - Journal article

VL - 6

JO - Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society

JF - Journal of Buddhism, Law & Society

SN - 2475-9279

IS - 2020-2021

ER -