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Buddhism, power and political order /

Dhammadhara College of Languages, Mandalay
Title Buddhism, power and political order /
Publication London ; New York, Routledge, 2007.
Description xvi, 256 pages ;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-233) and index
Introduction : Buddhism, power and politics in Theravada Buddhist lands / Ian Harris -- Idealism and pragmatism : a dilemma in the current monastic education systems of Burma and Thailand / Khammai Dhammasami -- Rajadhamma confronts Leviathan : Burmese political theory in the 1870s / Andrew Huxley -- Colonial knowledge and Buddhist education in Burma / Juliane Schober -- Reconstructing the Cambodian polity : Buddhism, kingship and the quest for legitimacy / Peter Gyallay-Pap -- The Cambodian hospital for monks / John Marston -- Buddhism, power and political order in pre-twentieth century Laos / Volker Grabowsky -- Past, present and future in Buddhist prophetic literature of the Lao / Peter Koret -- In defence of the nation : the cult of Nang Thoranee in northeast Thailand / Elizabeth Guthrie -- King, sangha and brahmans : ideology, ritual and power in pre-modern Siam / Peter Skilling
ISBN: 0415410185 (hbk)
ISBN: 0203947495
ISBN: 0203947495 (ebk)
ISBN: 9780415410182 (hbk)
ISBN: 9780203947494 (ebk)
Subject(s) Theravāda Buddhism Political aspectsCongresses Buddhism and state Congresses Southeast Asia
Contributor(s) Harris, Ian Charles