インド洋地域・東南アジア
Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia
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The Immortals: faces of the incredible in Buddhist Burma. | Rozenberg, Gullaume | xxix,316p. pap. | U. of Hawaii Press | 2015 | 5,880円 | Weikza -- Buddhist cults -- Burma -- Anthropology of religion In 1952 a twenty-six-year-old man living in a village in Central Burma was possessed by weikza—humans with extraordinary powers, including immortality. Key figures in Burmese Buddhism, weikza do not die but live on in an invisible realm. From there they re-enter the world through possession to care for people's temporal and spiritual needs while protecting and propagating Buddhism. |