Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand - Venerable Dr Khammai Dhammasami

Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand

From the Seventeenth Century to the Present
Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-05424-0 (ISBN)
149,60 inkl. MwSt
Drawing on primary sources in Pali, Burmese and Thai, practising monk Venerable Khammai Dhammasami guides the reader through the complex history of monastic education in two neighbouring countries with very different Buddhist societies: Burma and Thailand.

This book provides a clear account of the ways in which royal leaders and monastic institutions worked to develop monastic education in the face of changing political and economic conditions, including colonialism and the political instability of the 19th and 20th centuries. It studies influences from both British colonists and Siamese/Thai reformers, and engages with primary material, including documents from Burmese monasteries, royal orders, royal chronicles, and official government records.

As the first book to examine monastic education in Burma and Thailand, this is a welcome contribution to the social, monastic and religious history of Southeast Asia, and the growing field of Burmese Buddhist Studies.

Venerable Khammai Dhammasami is Buddhist Chaplain of the University of Oxford, UK. He is also Research Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies at the University of Oxford, UK, and Executive Secretary of the International Association of Buddhist Universities. He has recently set up the Shan State Buddhist University in Taunggyi, Myanmar.

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Burma: The Education of the Sangha under Strong Monarchs – Thalun (1629-1648) of the Ava Period and Bodawpaya (1782-1819) of the Kon-Baung Period
3. Burma: A Threatened Buddhist Kingdom and a Nationalist Sangha –Mindon (1853-1878)
4. Siam: Political Instability and the Sangha
5. Siam: The Standardisation of Monastic Education, and National 6. Integration, under Chulalongkorn (1868-1910)
6. Idealism and Pragmatism: Dilemmas in the Current Monastic 8. Education Systems of Burma and Thailand
Historical Summary
Afterword
Sources:
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Selected Bibliography
Notes
Glossary
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 581 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 1-350-05424-0 / 1350054240
ISBN-13 978-1-350-05424-0 / 9781350054240
Zustand Neuware
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