著者

黄 蘊

出版者

関西大学

雑誌

東アジア文化交渉研究 (ISSN:18827748)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.113-130, 2010-03-31

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セッション2 エスニック要素と宗教実践、そして宗教コミュニティ形成の文化交渉This paper presents an analysis of the Theravada Buddhist temples, societies in Malaysia as well as their devotees, focusing on the process of the formation of the multi-ethnic Theravada Buddhist community. In Malaysia, many of the Theravada Buddhist temples have a long history with various memberships of Sangha comprising monks from Thailand, Sri Lanka and Myanmar. On the other hand, the devotees of almost all Theravada Buddhist temples are predominantly English educated Chinese or English-speaking Chinese. The Theravada Buddhist temples, despite retention of cultural legacies of Thailand, Sri Lanka and Myanmar, carry out manifold activities in their own way and styles. This paper examines how the Sangha membership and the Chinese participants have engaged in developing Theravada Buddhist temples in cooperation with each other, focusing in particular on the temples and Buddhist societies of Sri Lankan tradition. The Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist temples and societies tend to provide Dhamma and humanitarian services to the public; at the same time they tend to adopt customs and styles of their Chinese devotees. It is in this way that they become indigenised and form a distinctive socio-religious community. This research will demonstrate how the Buddhists of the Theravada tradition organize their community and how multi-ethnic participants interact with each other in that process.