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The Routledge Handbook of Theravada Buddhism illustrates the growth
and new directions of scholarship in the study of Theravada
Buddhism. An in-depth guide to the distinctive features of
Theravada, the Handbook will be an invaluable resource to provide
structure and guidance for scholars and students of Asian Religion,
Buddhism and in particular Theravada Buddhism.
Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research,
this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and
historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening
bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural
complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary analysis
of performative and representational strategies for constituting
social collectivities, largely developed at Angkor. The analysis
involves extended close readings of a wide range of cultural
artefacts including epigraphic and manuscript texts, sculpture and
ritual practices. The author proposes a critical re-evaluation of
dominant paradigms of Cambodian historiography in view of
engendering new histories, or hybrid histories, which make room for
previously absent perspectives and voices, while developing new
theoretical tools engaging with and partially derived from
"indigenous" narrative practices in the broadest sense. In this
history-making process the historical event is shown to never be
entirely separable from its aesthetic representation. Particular
attention is paid to the roles of sexual difference in such
(re)constructions of history. The book presents a theory of power
capable of accounting for the historical phenomena by which
vernacular cultures appropriate, subvert and submit to cosmopolitan
forces. It charts out a novel approach to the study of classical
Southeast Asian materials, and is of interest to students and
scholars of Asian Art, Religion and Philosophy, Buddhism and
Southeast Asian History.
Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research,
this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and
historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening
bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural
complex. The book takes the form of an interdisciplinary analysis
of performative and representational strategies for constituting
social collectivities, largely developed at Angkor. The analysis
involves extended close readings of a wide range of cultural
artefacts including epigraphic and manuscript texts, sculpture and
ritual practices. The author proposes a critical re-evaluation of
dominant paradigms of Cambodian historiography in view of
engendering new histories, or hybrid histories, which make room for
previously absent perspectives and voices, while developing new
theoretical tools engaging with and partially derived from
"indigenous" narrative practices in the broadest sense. In this
history-making process the historical event is shown to never be
entirely separable from its aesthetic representation. Particular
attention is paid to the roles of sexual difference in such
(re)constructions of history. The book presents a theory of power
capable of accounting for the historical phenomena by which
vernacular cultures appropriate, subvert and submit to cosmopolitan
forces. It charts out a novel approach to the study of classical
Southeast Asian materials, and is of interest to students and
scholars of Asian Art, Religion and Philosophy, Buddhism and
Southeast Asian History.
A crucial reference for historians of Southeast Asia and those with
a serious interest in the Buddhism and Buddhist art of Southeast
Asia. What explains the spread of Theravada Buddhism? And how is it
entangled with the identity shifts that over the next four hundred
years gave rise to the Buddhist state now called Cambodia? Early
Theravadin Cambodia sheds light on one of the outstanding questions
of Southeast Asian history: the nature and timing of major cultural
and political shifts in the territory that was to become Cambodia,
starting in the 13th century. This important collection challenges
the conventional picture of Theravada as taking root in the void
left by the collapse of Angkor and its Hindu-Buddhist power
structure. Written by a diverse group of scholars from Cambodia,
Thailand, the United States, France, Australia, and Japan, this
volume is a sustained, collaborative discussion of evidence from
art and archaeology, and how it relates to questions of Buddhist
history, regional exchange networks, and ethnopolitical identities.
Accessibly written and vividly illustrated, the book will be a
crucial reference for historians of Southeast Asia and scholars of
Buddhism.
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