Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
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 Mc Daniel 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. By looking at modern sermons, and even television programs and websites, he traces how pedagogical techniques found in premodern palm-leaf manuscripts are pervasive in modern education.
As the first comprehensive study of monastic education in Thailand and Laos, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words will appeal to a wide audience of scholars and students interested in religious studies, anthropology, social and intellectual history, and pedagogy.
Tabela de Conteúdo
Acknowledgments
Note on Transcription
Introduction
Part One | 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 Two | 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 Three | Vernacular Landscapes: Teaching Buddhism in Laos and Thailand
7. From Manuscript to Television
8. Philosophical Embryology
Conclusion
Notes
Note on Manuscripts, Archives, Monastic Libraries, and Catalogs
Bibliography
Index
Sobre o autor
Justin Mc Daniel is professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk: Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand (Columbia University Press, 2011) and Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (University of Washington Press, 2008); and coeditor of Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia (University of Hawai’i Press, 2016) and From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls: New Approaches to the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015).
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