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Spreading the Dhamma: The written word and the transmission of Pāli texts in pre-modern northern Thailand |
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著者 |
Veidlinger, Daniel Marc (著)
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掲載誌 |
Dissertation Abstracts International
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巻号 | v.63 n.7 Section A |
出版年月日 | 2002 |
出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
出版サイト |
https://www.proquest.com/
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出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
資料の種類 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
言語 | 英文=English |
学位 | 博士 |
学校 | University of Chicago |
学部・学科名 | Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations |
指導教官 | Collins, Steven |
卒業年 | 2002 |
ノート | 330p |
キーワード | Spreading; Written word; Premodern; Thailand; Dhamma; Pali; Buddhism |
抄録 | This dissertation focuses on the transmission of the Tipitaka and related Pāli texts through the written word in the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na during its Golden Age in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It assesses the complex relationship of this medium to the oral tradition, and locates the literate culture of Lan Na in relation to that of both geographically and chronologically proximate polities. The dissertation aims both to present a picture of the role that Pāli writing, chiefly on palm-leaf manuscripts, played in northern Thailand during the period under study, and also to assess the attitudes that were held towards writing by different social groups.
Written Pāli literature was a site of contestation that various groups saw alternatively as a vehicle for textual communication, an instrument of political power and a threat to cultural hegemony. Of the three main northern Thai monastic orders at the time, the newest one, an araññavāsī or forest-dwelling order that was brought from Sri Lanka in 1425 CE, was most interested in using writing both to communicate and to store Pāli texts. Monarchs, too, for some time had been inclined to employ writing for the administration of the kingdom, for legal texts and for inter-regnal communication. This type of usage may have acclimatized them to writing, enticing them to use it for religious purposes as well. Once they began to sponsor manuscripts, they realized that these projects and the texts that proceeded from them could be used to cultivate strong ties to the Dhamma and thus increase their prestige in the eyes of their subjects. Many of the monks, on the other hand, were somewhat resistant to the use of writing to transmit Pāli texts because it impeded on their status as sole guardians of the oral texts. |
ISBN | 0493758852; 9780493758855 |
ヒット数 | 404 |
作成日 | 2005.09.23 |
更新日期 | 2022.03.24 |
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