Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885

by Michael W. Charney

Powerful Learning is the first intellectual history of one of the great Buddhist empires of Southeast Asia, Konbaung Burma, before the British conquest. The book challenges the notion of the court and the monastic order as static institutions by examining how competition within and between them prompted major rethinking about the intellectual foundations of indigenous society and culture. The catalyst for this reformation of indigenous thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891480935
• ISBN13: 9780891480938
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.1"