Title The Buddha's wizards : magic, protection, and healing in Burmese Buddhism / Thomas Nathan Patton.

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Description	1 online resource (xxxiv, 187 pages, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
	text file PDF
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Vanguards of the Sāsana -- The Buddha's chief wizard -- Women of the wizard king -- Pagodas of power -- Wizards in the shadows.
Summary	Belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha's Wizards is a historically informed, ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era.
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Language	In English.
Subject	Buddhism -- Burma.
	Buddhism.
	Burma.
	Burma -- Religious life and customs.
	Wizards -- Burma.
	Wizards.
	Occultism -- Burma.
	Occultism.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Patton, Thomas Nathan. Buddha's wizards. New York : Columbia University Press, 2018 9780231187602 (DLC) 2018010997
ISBN	9780231547376 (electronic book)
	0231547374 (electronic book)
	9780231187602 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0231187602
Standard No.	10.7312/patt18760