Rizzo R.Mahidol University2025-01-032025-01-032024-12-01Annali di Ca Foscari Serie Orientale Vol.60 No.2 (2024) , 179-200https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/102589The paper investigates the emergence of a youth organisation in rural Central Java and its relevance for the channelling of Buddhist revivalist stances in the Temanggung area. Rather than instantiating a linear “return”, the Buddhist revitalisation efforts promoted by the group materialise a novel religious scenario marked by a sharper influence of Theravāda Buddhism and a mélange of ethnocultural stances. More specifically, the paper intends to show how the formation of the youth organisation and the on-the-ground activities implemented reflect wider dynamics of internal mobility as well as new economic/entrepreneurial sensibilities.Social SciencesArts and HumanitiesArticleSCOPUS10.30687/AnnOr/2385-3042/2024/02/0082-s2.0-8521326726623853042