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Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand - From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Paperback)
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Buddhism, Education and Politics in Burma and Thailand - From the Seventeenth Century to the Present (Paperback)
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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.
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