Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand - Couverture souple

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Bunnag, Jane

 
9780521040648: Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521040647 ISBN 13 : 9780521040648
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic anthropological study of monastic organization and monk-layman interaction in a purely urban context in the countries where Theravada Buddhism is practised, namely, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Laos and Thailand. The material presented is based on fieldwork carried out in Ayutthaya, Central Thailand. Dr Bunnag describes and analyses the socio-economic and ritual relations existing between the monk and the lay community, and she demonstrates the way in which the role of the monk is used by some men, wittingly or otherwise, as a social stepping-stone, in that for the son of a farmer a period in the monkhood can provide the education and contacts necessary to facilitate his assimilation into the urban lay community at a social and economic level which would otherwise have been impossible. Finally, Dr Bunnag places the material presented in a broader theoretical context by reviewing it in relation to anthropological discussions concerning the nature of Thai society as a whole.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic anthropological study of monastic organization and monk-layman interaction in a purely urban context in the countries where Theravada Buddhism is practised, namely, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Laos and Thailand. The material presented is based on fieldwork carried out in Ayutthaya, Central Thailand. Dr Bunnag describes and analyses the socio-economic and ritual relations existing between the monk and the lay community, and she demonstrates the way in which the role of the monk is used by some men, wittingly or otherwise, as a social stepping-stone, in that for the son of a farmer a period in the monkhood can provide the education and contacts necessary to facilitate his assimilation into the urban lay community at a social and economic level which would otherwise have been impossible. Finally, Dr Bunnag places the material presented in a broader theoretical context by reviewing it in relation to anthropological discussions concerning the nature of Thai society as a whole.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521040647
ISBN 13 
9780521040648
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
232
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521085915: Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521085918 ISBN 13 :  9780521085915
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1973
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