Local Cure, Global Chant: Performing Theravadic Awakening in the Footsteps of the Ledi Sayadaw
Numen April 1, 2024 Daniel M. Stuart
This article takes as its starting point a repertoire of protective texts and practices articulated as ritual therapeutics in the early twentieth century by the well-known Burmese scholar-monk, the Ledi Sayadaw. Through an exploration of meditation-practice, meditation-teaching, and meditation-performance contexts in postcolonial Burma and India, I demonstrate the ways in which such texts and...