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Author McDaniel, Justin.

Title Gathering leaves & lifting words : histories of Buddhist monastic education in Laos and Thailand / Justin Thomas McDaniel
Published Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 358 p., [16] p. of plates )
Series Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.
Contents 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
Summary Examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, this title traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-345) and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Laikos Orthodoxos Synagermos gnd
Subject 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.
RELIGION -- Buddhism -- Sacred Writings.
Buddhism -- Study and teaching
Buddhist monks -- Training of
Buddhismus
Mönchtum
Religiöse Erziehung
Laos
Thailand
Thailand
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021694508
ISBN 9780295989228
029598922X
Other Titles Gathering leaves and lifting words