Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have
concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic
anthropological study of monastic organization and monk-layman
interaction in a purely urban context in the countries where
Theravada Buddhism is practised, namely, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon,
Laos and Thailand. The material presented is based on fieldwork
carried out in Ayutthaya, Central Thailand. Dr Bunnag describes and
analyses the socio-economic and ritual relations existing between
the monk and the lay community, and she demonstrates the way in
which the role of the monk is used by some men, wittingly or
otherwise, as a social stepping-stone, in that for the son of a
farmer a period in the monkhood can provide the education and
contacts necessary to facilitate his assimilation into the urban
lay community at a social and economic level which would otherwise
have been impossible. Finally, Dr Bunnag places the material
presented in a broader theoretical context by reviewing it in
relation to anthropological discussions concerning the nature of
Thai society as a whole.
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