Justin Thomas Mcdaniel

Gathering Leaves & Lifting Words

Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 153mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9780295988498
• ISBN-10: 0295988495
• Artikelnr.: 23604488

Autorenporträt

Justin McDaniel is professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand (Columbia University Press, 2011) and Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (University of Washington Press, 2008); and coeditor of Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2016) and From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls: New Approaches to the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

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