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. Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic. His second book, The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk, won the Kahin Prize. In the Buddhas Words: An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canonby Bodhi / Dalai. His first book, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words, won the Harry Benda Prize. Incorporating both primary and secondary sources from Thailand and Laos, he examines premodern inscriptional, codicological, anthropological, art historical, ecclesiastical, royal, and French colonial records. Kahn Endowed Professor of the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania. Justin McDaniel Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand (Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies) Paperback Augby Justin Thomas McDaniel (Author) Hardcover 99.00 4 Used from 90.06 6 New from 99.00 Paperback from 24.50 6 Used from 24.50 13 New from 32.

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. His first book, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words, won the Harry Benda Prize. 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. Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Justin Thomas McDaniel, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words by Justin Thomas McDaniel