Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words

McDaniel, Justin Thomas:
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words : Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand / Justin Thomas McDaniel. - Seattle, Wash. : University of Washington Press, 2008. - xiii, 358 S. : Ill. - (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies)
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Beschreibung
Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, Justin McDaniel traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values. He depicts Buddhism as a series of overlapping processes, bringing fresh attention to the continuities of Theravada monastic communities that have endured despite regional and linguistic variations. Incorporating both primary and secondary sources from Thailand and Laos, he examines premodern inscriptional, codicological, anthropological, art historical, ecclesiastical, royal, and French colonial records. By looking at modern sermons, and even television programs and websites, he traces how pedagogical techniques found in premodern palm-leaf manuscripts are pervasive in modern education.

Inhalt
Acknowledgments. ix
Note on Transcription. xii
Introduction. 3
PART I. STRUCTURAL MECHANISMS: THE INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF MONASTIC EDUCATION
1. From the Sala Vat to the Institut Bouddhique. 25
2. Wandering Librarians. 69
3. Kings and Universities. 92
PART II. PROXIMATE MECHANISMS: TOWARD A CURRICULAR HISTORY OF MONASTIC EDUCATION
4. Genres, Modes, and Idiosyncratic Articulations. 119
5. The Culture of Translation. 161
6. Canons and Curricula. 191
PART III. VERNACULAR LANDSCAPES: TEACHING BUDDHISM IN LAOS AND THAILAND
7. From Manuscript to Television. 207
8. Philosophical Embryology. 228
Conclusion. 247
Notes. 259
Note on Manuscripts, Archives, Monastic Libraries, and Catalogs. 313
Bibliography. 317
Index. 347

Autor
Justin McDaniel is associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside. Faculty profile.

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