Gathering leaves & lifting words : histories of Buddhist monastic education in Laos and Thailand / Justin Thomas McDaniel.
Series: Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studiesPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780295989228
- 029598922X
- Gathering leaves and lifting words
- Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- Laos -- History
- Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- Thailand -- History
- Buddhist monks -- Education -- Laos -- History
- Buddhist monks -- Education -- Thailand -- History
- RELIGION -- Comparative Religion
- Buddhism -- Study and teaching
- Buddhist monks -- Education
- Laos
- Thailand
- Buddhismus
- Mönchtum
- Religiöse Erziehung
- Laos
- Thailand
- RELIGION / Buddhism / Sacred Writings
- 294.3/7509593 22
- BQ162.L28 M33 2008eb
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index.
Print version record.
Part I. Structural Mechanisms: The Institutional History of Monastic Education: 1. From the Sala Vat to the Institut Bouddhique -- 2. Wandering Librarians -- 3. Kings and Universities -- Part II. Proximate Mechanisms: Toward a Curricular History of Monastic Education: 4. Genres, Modes, and Idiosyncratic Articulations -- 5. The Culture of Translation -- 6. Canons and Curricula -- Part III. Vernacular Landscapes: Teaching Buddhism in Laos and Thailand: 7. From Manuscript to Television -- 8. Philosophical Embryology.
English.
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