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"Extreme conditions lead to extreme protest, and contradictions between the Buddhist-inflected rhetoric of non-harm and the agony of self-immolation have been accounted for variously. The interpreters create descriptions that reflect, select, and sometimes deflect the reality of the burning corpse, calling attention to a certain place and time. In this volume, John Whalen-Bridge applies Kenneth Burke's interpretive suggestions to the phenomenon of a Buddhist-inflected self-immolation movement. Tibet on Fire considers the possibility that the self-burnings could be interpreted as an extension of the struggle that constitutes part of what Kenneth Burke called a 'logomachy.' The volume seeks to: open up the possibility of multiple motivations, explain the significance of shifting contexts, and explore the pervasive substitutions in which the self-immolator and the Dalai Lama trade places in attempts to understand the Tibetan situation. "--

Buddhists Confront the State / Charles F. Keyes -- "Foremost among Religions": Theravada Buddhism's Affairs with the Modern Sri Lankan State / Mahinda Deegalle -- Schools, Ritual Economies and the Expanding State: The Changing Roles of Lao Buddhist Monks as "Traditional Intellectuals" / Patrice Ladwig -- After Pol Pot: Cambodia and the Building of a New Stupa / John Amos Marston -- The Relic and the Rule of Righteousness: Reflections on U Nu's Dhammavijaya / Tilman Frasch -- Sacred Site or Public Space? The Shwedagon Pagoda in Colonial Rangoon / Donald Seekins -- Angry Monk Syndrome on the World Stage: Tibet, Engaged Buddhism, and the Weapons of the Weak / John Whalen-Bridge -- Rebirth Control: Contemporary Inner Mongolian Buddhism and the Religious Authority of the Chinese State / Jonathan Mair -- Do Buddhist "Nuns" Need the Thai Sangha? / Monica Lindberg Falk -- Sacred Protests and Buddhist Environmental Knowledge / Susan M. Darlington