The Buddha's Wizards: Magic, Protection, and Healing in Burmese Buddhism

Author/Contributor(s):	Patton, Thomas Nathan
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	04/14/2020
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

Belief in wizard-saints who protect their devotees and intervene in the world is widespread among Burmese Buddhists. The Buddha's Wizards is a historically informed, ethnographic study that explores the supernatural landscape of Buddhism in Myanmar to explain the persistence of wizardry as a form of lived religion in the modern era.