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2. Foreword
3. Chapter 1: On Saints and Wizards: Ideals of Human Perfection and Power in Contemporary Burmese Buddhism
4. List of Illustrations
5. Index
6. Preface
7. Note on Transcription
8. Contents
9. Acknowledgements
10. Chapter 2: The Longevity of Weikza
11. Chapter 5: From Bricks to Pagodas: Weikza Specialists and the Rituals of Pagoda-Building
12. Chapter 7: Healing through Weikza: Therapeutic Cults in the Arakanese Context
13. Chapter 4: The World Emperor’s Battle against the Evil Forces
14. Part Two: Defenders of Buddhism: Weikza Rituals for Safeguarding Religion
15. Part One: Locating Weikza Cults in the Burmese Religious Landscape
16. Chapter 3: Spirits versus Weikza: Two Competing Ways of Mediation
17. Postscript: What Kind of Buddhism is That?
18. Chapter 6: In Pursuit of the Sorcerer’s Power: Sacred Diagrams as Technologies of Potency
19. Contributors
20. Part Three: Technologies and Figures of Power: Weikza Specialists as Diagram-Makers, Diviners, and Exorcists
21. Chapter 8: Powerful Yet Powerless, Powerless Yet Powerful: Being an Exorcist in Burma
22. Bibliography
23. Glossary
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