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Gathering leaves & lifting words : histories of Buddhist monastic education in Laos and Thailand / Justin Thomas McDaniel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studiesPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 358 p., [16] p. of plates )Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780295989228
  • 029598922X
Other title:
  • Gathering leaves and lifting words
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Gathering leaves & lifting wordsDDC classification:
  • 294.3/7509593 22
LOC classification:
  • BQ162.L28
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)393459

Includes bibliographical references (p. 317-345) and index.

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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.

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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.