Spreading the Dhamma : writing, orality, and textual transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand /
"How did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of La...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaiʻi Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Monks and memory : the oral world
- 2. Early Thai encounters with orality and literacy
- 3. Golden Age, golden images, golden leaves
- 4. The text in the world : scribes, sponsors, and manuscript culture
- 5. Turning over a new leaf : the advance of writing
- 6. Overlooked or looked over : the meaning and uses of written Pali texts.