Buddhism, Power and Political Order (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Harris, Ian

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume brings together the brightest minds in the study of Buddhism in Southeast Asia to create a more coherent account of the relations between Buddhism and political order in the late pre-modern and modern period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134129478
• Artikelnr.: 42980655

Autorenporträt

Ian Harris is Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of Cumbria and was Senior Scholar at the Becket Institute, St. Hugh's College, University of Oxford from 2001-4. He is co-founder of the UK Association for Buddhist Studies and has written widely on aspects of Buddhist ethics. His most recent book is Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice (2005) and he is currently responsible for a research project on Buddhism and Cambodian Communism at the Documentation Center of Cambodia [DC-Cam], Phnom Penh.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - Buddhism, Power and Politics in Theravada Buddhist Lands
Ian Harris 2. Idealism and Pragmatism: A Dilemma in the Current Monastic
Education Systems of Burma and Thailand Khammai Dhammasami 3. Rajadhamma
Confronts Leviathan: Burmese Political Theory in the 1870s Andrew Huxley
4. Colonial Knowledge and Buddhist Education in Burma Juliane Schober 5.
Reconstructing the Cambodian Polity: Buddhism, Kingship and the Quest for
Legitimacy Peter Gyallay-Pap 6. The Cambodian Hospital for Monks John
Marston 7. Buddhism, Power, and Political Order in pre-Twentieth Century
Laos Volker Grabowsky 8. Past, Present, and Future in Buddhist Prophetic
Literature of the Lao Peter Koret 9. In Defence of the Nation: The Cult of
Nang Thoranee in Northeast Thailand Elizabeth Guthrie 10. King, Sangha, and
Brahmans: Ideology, Ritual, and Power in Pre-modern Siam Peter Skilling