Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words by Justin Thomas McDaniel

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.Īs 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. Incorporating both primary and secondary sources from Thailand and Laos, he examines premodern inscriptional, codicological, anthropological, art historical, ecclesiastical, royal, and French colonial records. 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. 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.

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Reform of Theravada Buddhism occurred in different parts of Southeast Asia in different circumstances at different times. Seattle and London, University of Washington Press, 2008. Journal of Southeast Asian Studies Cambridge Core Laos and Thailand. Books by Justin Thomas McDaniel Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia Starting at 38.58 From Mulberry Leaves to Silk Scrolls: New Approaches to the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions Starting at 9.67 Gathering Leaves & Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand Starting at 17. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Justin Thomas McDaniel, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand. Gathering leaves & lifting words: Histories of Buddhist monastic education in Laos and Thailand By Justin Thomas McDaniel Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008.

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words by Justin Thomas McDaniel