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Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand |
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Author |
McDaniel, Justin Thomas
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Date | 2008.10.30 |
Pages | 358 |
Publisher | University of Washington Press |
Publisher Url |
http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/
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Location | Seattle, WA, US [西雅圖, 華盛頓州, 美國] |
Content type | 書籍=Book |
Language | 英文=English |
Abstract | 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. He traces how pedagogical techniques found in premodern palm-leaf manuscripts are pervasive in modern education by looking at modern sermons, and even television programs and web sites. |
ISBN | 0295988487 |
Hits | 917 |
Created date | 2008.12.03 |
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