Gathering Leaves & Lifting Words: Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

by Justin Thomas McDaniel

Book Overview

Winner of the Henry J. Benda Prize sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies

Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words examines modern and premodern Buddhist monastic education traditions in Laos and Thailand. Through five centuries of adaptation and reinterpretation of sacred texts and commentaries, Justin McDaniel traces curricular variations in Buddhist oral and written education that reflect a wide array of community goals and values...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988495
• ISBN13: 9780295988498
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"