Buddhism, power, and political order /edited by Ian Harris.
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Abingdon ;New York :
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Routledge,
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2007.
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p. cm.
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مرجع به حساب نمي آيد
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : Buddhism, power, and politics in Theravada Buddhist lands / Ian Harris -- Idealism and pragmatism : a dilemma in the current monastic education systems of Burma and Thailand / Khammai Dhammasami -- Rajadhamma confronts Leviathan : Burmese political theory in the 1870s / Andrew Huxley -- Colonial knowledge and Buddhist education in Burma / Juliane Schober -- Reconstructing the Cambodian polity : Buddhism, kingship, and the quest for legitimacy / Peter Gyallay-Pap -- The Cambodian hospital for monks / John Marston -- Buddhism, power, and political order in pre-twentieth century Laos / Volker Grabowsky -- Past, present, and future in Buddhist prophetic literature of the Lao / Peter Koret -- In defence of the nation : the cult of Nang Thoranee in Northeast Thailand / Elizabeth Guthrie -- King, sangha, and brahmans : ideology, ritual, and power in pre-modern Siam / Peter Skilling.