TY - BOOK AU - McDaniel,Justin Thomas TI - Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand T2 - Critical Dialogues in Southeast Asian Studies SN - 9780295989228 AV - KEY U1 - 294.3/7509593 PY - 2008/// CY - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press KW - Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- Laos -- History KW - Buddhism -- Study and teaching -- Thailand -- History KW - Buddhist monks -- Education -- Laos -- History KW - Buddhist monks -- Education -- Thailand -- History KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- Introduction -- Part I Structural Mechanisms: The Institutional History of Monastic Education -- 1 From the Sala Vat to the Institut Bouddhique -- 2 Wandering Librarians -- 3 Kings and Universities -- Part II Proximate Mechanisms: Toward a Curricular History of Monastic Education -- 4 Genres, Modes, and Idiosyncratic Articulations -- 5 The Culture of Translation -- 6 Canons and Curricula -- Part III: Vernacular Landscapes: Teaching Buddhism in Laos and Thailand -- 7 From Manuscript to Television -- 8 Philosophical Embryology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Note on Manuscripts, Archives, Monastic Libraries, and Catalogs -- Bibliography -- Index UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3444231 ER -