Manuscripts and Education in Northern Thailand and Laos (1569-1920)

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Published: Jul 5, 2019
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Manuscripts Education Northern Thailand Laos

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Justin McDaniel
Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Abstract

Nissaya, vohāra and nāmasadda pedagogical genres reflect
modes of thought, pedagogical techniques, and commentarial
practices specific to a place and given time. These manuscripts have
also influenced the way knowledge is assessed, organized, and written
about in the modern period. An educational history based on methods
and modal entities will emerge through a study of pedagogical
manuscripts3. These texts cannot be placed into neat categories.
They must be seen as particular moments in a history of articulations
of Buddhism. They do not describe Buddhist thought systematically.
They do not clearly represent a Buddhist episteme or a commentarial
tradition. Instead they evince the ways local agents were reaching
back and reaching towards Buddhism.

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McDaniel, J. (2019). Manuscripts and Education in Northern Thailand and Laos (1569-1920). The Journal of International Association of Buddhist Universities (JIABU), 1(1), 109–119. Retrieved from https://so06.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/Jiabu/article/view/201866
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Author Biography

Justin McDaniel, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania

 

Professor Dr. Justin McDaniel's research foci include Lao, Thai, Pali and Sanskrit literature, art and architecture, and manuscript studies. His first book, Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words, won the Harry Benda Prize. His second book, The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magic Monk, won the Kahin Prize. He has received grants from the NEH, Mellon, Rockefeller, Fulbright, PACRIM, Luce, the SSRC, among others. He is the co-editor of the journals: Buddhism Compass, Journal of Lao Studies, and Associate Editor of the Journal of Asian Studies. He has won teaching and advising awards at Harvard U, Ohio U, the University of California, and the Ludwig Prize for Teaching at Penn. In 2012 he was named a Guggenheim Fellow and in 2014 a fellow of Kyoto University's Center for Southeast Asian Studies. His forthcoming work includes edited books on Thai Manuscripts, Buddhist Biographies, and Buddhist ritual. He also has a new book on modern Buddhist architecture.

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