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ISSN: 0931122X ISBN: 9783631547151 3631547153 Year: 1988 Volume: 12 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main [etc.] Peter Lang

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World conqueror and world renouncer
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ISBN: 0521292905 0521211409 051155818X 9780521211406 9780521292900 9780511558184 Year: 1976 Volume: 15 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand. The book conveys the historical background necessary for full comprehension of the contemporary structural relationship between Buddhism, the sangha (monastic order), and the polity, including the historic institution of kingship. Professor Tambiah delineates the overall relationship, as postulated in early Buddhism, between the monk's otherworldly quest on one side and the this-worldly ordinating role of the monarchy on the other. He also examines the complementary and dialectical tensions that occur in this classical relationship, the king's duty to both protect and purify the sangha being a notable example.

Buddhist monk, Buddhist layman : a study of urban monastic organization in central Thailand
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ISBN: 0521085918 0521040647 0511557574 9780521085915 9780521040648 9780511557576 Year: 2007 Volume: 6 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic anthropological study of monastic organization and monk-layman interaction in a purely urban context in the countries where Theravada Buddhism is practised, namely, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Laos and Thailand. The material presented is based on fieldwork carried out in Ayutthaya, Central Thailand. Dr Bunnag describes and analyses the socio-economic and ritual relations existing between the monk and the lay community, and she demonstrates the way in which the role of the monk is used by some men, wittingly or otherwise, as a social stepping-stone, in that for the son of a farmer a period in the monkhood can provide the education and contacts necessary to facilitate his assimilation into the urban lay community at a social and economic level which would otherwise have been impossible. Finally, Dr Bunnag places the material presented in a broader theoretical context by reviewing it in relation to anthropological discussions concerning the nature of Thai society as a whole.

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