Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words - Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

Informationen zum Autor Justin McDaniel is associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside. Klappentext Justin McDaniel is associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside. Zusammenfassung Examines modern and pre-modern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries! this work traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Note on Transcription Introduction Part One | 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 Two | 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 Three | Vernacular Landscapes: Teaching Buddhism in Laos and Thailand 7. From Manuscript to Television 8. Philosophical Embryology Conclusion Notes Note on Manuscripts, Archives, Monastic Libraries, and Catalogs Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Justin McDaniel, Justin Thomas Mcdaniel
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.11.2008
• EAN: 9780295988498
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98849-8
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 230 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies; Critical Dialogues in Southeas; Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies; Critical Dialogues in Southeas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Other religions; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories