Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

Contents

Contents Acknowledgments ix Note on Transcription xii Introduction 3 part i Structural Mechanisms The Institutional History of Monastic Education 1 From the Sala Vat to the Institut Bouddhique 25 2 Wandering Librarians 69 3 Kings and Universities 92 part ii Proximate Mechanisms Toward a Curricular History of Monastic Education 4 Genres, Modes, and Idiosyncratic Articulations 119 5 The Culture of Translation 161 6 Canons and Curricula 191 part iii Vernacular Landscapes Teaching Buddhism in Laos and Thailand 7 From Manuscript to Television 207 8 Philosophical Embryology 228 Conclusion 247 Notes 259 Note on Manuscripts, Archives, Monastic Libraries, and Catalogs 313 Bibliography 317 Index 347 ...