Forest monks and the nation-state : an anthropological and historical study in northeastern Thailand /
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| Author / Creator: | Taylor, J. L. |
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| Imprint: | Singapore : ISEAS, c1993. |
| Description: | ix, 377 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social issues in Southeast Asia |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1624299 |
Table of Contents:
- Ch. 1. Forest Monks, Text and Local Tradition. Forest-dwelling, reform as historical process
- Ch. 2. Forest Monks and Sangha Reconstruction in the Early Bangkok Reigns. History and early sangha administration. Wandering monks, peri-urban monasteries, and meditation
- Ch. 3. Reforms in the Frontier. Diffusion and establishment of the reform movement in the northeast. The rise of Phra Ubaalii. Mahaa Juum, and the expansion and consolidation of Thammayut lines. The Thammayut and the extension of education reforms. Centralization and tensions in the countryside
- Ch. 4. The Wandering Master and Ramified Monastic Settlements. Slow and risky wayfaring. Forest monks, missionaries, and the establishment of the Thammayut in the north. The home return; the master's last five years. Wat Aranyawaasii: a case-study in the process of domestication. Forest teachers, colonization, and the founding of monasteries in the northeast
- Ch. 5. The Consolidation of a Northeastern Tradition. Doctrine, missionaries, and demons. Forest monks on the "inside" and "outside" Ranks, titles, and institutionalization. Traditional activism and regional discord. Expansionism, regulation of the sangha, and forest monks' charter. Confrontation in Ubon province. Resonances from the centre; frontiersmen and the state
- Ch. 6. Forest Monks, Metaphor and Popular Cult. Relic repositories and sanctified religious sites. Free-floating charisma and the wandering regimen. Sanctity "out there"; the search for objectified charisma. Sacred relics and popular saints. Differential proclivities, forest monks, and the cult of amulets
- Ch. 7. Impulses of Change. Resistance and accommodation. Royal fervour and northeastern forest monks. Tradition, changing practices, and compromise
- Ch. 8. Ecology, Dhamma, and the Ambivalence of Patronage. Dhamma, subsistence, and response to change: the case of Ajaan Thui. Living on the rim; ecology and forest monks. Community, politics, and the kammathaan monk: the case of Ajaan Baen. The role of nuns and forest monasteries. The metropolitan compact and the samnak connection. The 1960s and the first contacts. Propaganda, security, and national development. Wat Bowornniwet, forest monks, and sectarianism
- Ch. 9. Merit Power and Institutionalization. Social and political discourse, power relations, and forest monks: three case-studies. Periphery and nationhood; the "routinization" of forest monks. Merit, ritual power, and the process of domestication. Oblations and the ritual of offering robes. The relationship between informal pupillary affiliations, "sect", and authority in the Greater Thai Sangha. Ch. 10. Summary and Concluding Comments.