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"Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words" examines modern and pre-modern 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 pre-modern inscriptional, codicological, anthropological, art historical, ecclesiastical, royal, and French colonial records. He traces how pedagogical techniques found in pre-modern palm-leaf manuscripts are pervasive in modern education by looking at modern sermons, and even television programmes and websites.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Aspects of religion (non-Christian)

• Full title: Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words
• Subtitle: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand
• Author: Justin Thomas McDaniel
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 384
• EAN: 9780295988481
• ISBN: 0295988487
• ID: 04874787
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Weight: 726 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. October 2008

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