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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. "--

AbstractSaid's work has had different significance in different contexts. From a literary perspective his greatest achievement has been his challenging of the New Critical separation of aesthetic and political concerns. His seminal work Orientalism has been the central influence of the last twenty years for literary scholars concerned with cultural exchanges between Asia and America, even though his professed task was the discussion of European and Middle Eastern political and aesthetic interrelations. This paper examines the political significance of Orientalism in the light of the struggles within literary studies that gave rise to the text. but there is a difference between overstatement for effect and overstatement as doctrine....'

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