
Theravada in Everyday Life with Brooke Schedneck
The Lion’s Roar Podcast
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The Body as a Space for Enembodied Storytelling
What struck me in part one were the sacred objects that are worn so like yantra's amulets and even sacred tattoos and full disclosure i'm asking this question because one of my dissertation chapters was on tattoos Sri Lankan Americans. Can you elaborate how the body itself becomes a sacred space in these communities ohYeah thank you for that question i really want to read your dissertation now because i think it's like deeper the spitball i think of it but yeah when i was when i'm writing about the sacred objects in part one it's like the the ideas of how a monk who was like a representative of the Buddha and the Dhamma experienced all this as a kind of power
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