Seeger, M. orcid.org/0000-0002-9202-9622, Chaipanha, A. and Charaschanyawong, N. (2024) Buddhist Performing Arts: Thematizing Gender and Developing a New Pedagogy in Modern Thai Buddhism. Journal of Buddhist Ethics, 31. pp. 431-466. ISSN 1076-9005
Abstract
This article sets out to describe and reflect on the development, execution, and impact of two devised theatre performances that the authors of this paper designed as an innovative and effective way of engaging audiences with Buddhist teachings and gender issues in Thai Buddhism. Based on long-term research into the biographies, soteriological practice and teaching, and veneration of historical Thai female Buddhist practitioners, each of these two plays was staged publicly twice in or near Bangkok in 2018 and 2019 respectively. We will discuss how the educational potential of performing arts can be harnessed to change understandings of audiences and performers or, at least, prompt their curiosity in the study of Buddhism, both as a doctrinal system and in terms of aspects of current religious practices, understandings, and perceptions.
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > East Asian Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2024 09:05 |
Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2024 12:39 |
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