{"id":3257,"date":"2012-04-16T21:45:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=3257"},"modified":"2012-04-16T21:45:10","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T01:45:10","slug":"the-burmese-alms-boycott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2012\/04\/16\/the-burmese-alms-boycott\/","title":{"rendered":"The Burmese Alms-Boycott"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 19, 2012<\/h6>\n<h3>The Burmese Alms-Boycott: Theory and Practice of the <em>Pattanikujjana <\/em>in Buddhist Non-Violent Resistance<\/h3>\n<p>Martin Kovan<br \/>\nUniversity of Melbourne<\/p>\n<p>This essay presents a general and critical historical survey of the Burmese Buddhist alms-boycott (<em>pattanikujjana<\/em>) between 1990 and 2007. It details the P\u0101li textual and ethical constitution of the boycott and its instantiation in modern Burmese history, particularly the Saffron Revolution of 2007. It also suggests a metaethical reading that considers Buddhist metaphysics as constitutive of that conflict. Non-violent resistance is contextualized as a soteriologically transcendent (\u201cnibbanic\u201d) project in the common life of believing Buddhists\u2014even those who, military regime and martyred monastics alike, defend a fidelity to Therav\u0101da Buddhism from dual divides of a political and humanistic fence.     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2012\/04\/Kovan-Burmese-Alms-Boycott.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 19, 2012 The Burmese Alms-Boycott: Theory and Practice of the Pattanikujjana in Buddhist Non-Violent Resistance Martin Kovan University of Melbourne This essay presents a general and critical historical survey of the Burmese Buddhist alms-boycott (pattanikujjana) between 1990 and 2007. It details the P\u0101li textual and ethical constitution of the boycott and its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2012\/04\/16\/the-burmese-alms-boycott\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Burmese Alms-Boycott<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41433],"tags":[2650,2678,2592],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-19-2012","tag-burma","tag-monasticism","tag-theravada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-Qx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}