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

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Justin Thomas McDaniel

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words

Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

Justin Thomas McDaniel

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English

University of Washington Press
16 October 2008

Buddhist life & practice; Religious communities & monasticism

Series: Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words

Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, Justin McDaniel traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values. He depicts Buddhism as a series of overlapping processes, bringing fresh attention to the continuities of Theravada monastic communities that have endured despite regional and linguistic variations. Incorporating both primary and secondary sources from Thailand and Laos, he examines premodern inscriptional, codicological, anthropological, art historical, ecclesiastical, royal, and French colonial records. By looking at modern sermons, and even television programs and websites, he traces how pedagogical techniques found in premodern palm-leaf manuscripts are pervasive in modern education.

As the first comprehensive study of monastic education in Thailand and Laos, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words will appeal to a wide audience of scholars and students interested in religious studies, anthropology, social and intellectual history, and pedagogy.

By: Justin Thomas McDaniel
Imprint: University of Washington Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 726g
ISBN: 9780295988481
ISBN 10: 0295988487
Series: Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 16 October 2008
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Justin McDaniel is associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside.

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

""This book is a gold mine of descriptive information, analysis, and informed speculative inference. It will add substantially to our knowledge of Buddhism in northern Thailand and Laos, monastic education, the relationship between canon and commentary, and, I hope, will promote the study of pedagogical intertextuality that is at the heart of McDaniel's project."" Donald K. Swearer, Harvard Divinity School ""This is a brilliant study which will establish McDaniel as the foremost student of the relationship between Buddhist religious texts and the contexts in which they are read, heard, seen and interpreted."" Charles Keyes, University of Washington