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Gathering Leaves and Lifting Words

Histories of Buddhist Monastic Education in Laos and Thailand

By Justin Thomas McDaniel

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...

Imagination and Narrative

Lexical and Cultural Translation in Buddhist Asia

By Peter Skilling, Justin Thomas McDaniel

The diffusion of religious thought in Buddhist Asia has been marked by new modes of expression. Sometimes this has meant textual translation, as highlighted in chapters about Chinese and Japanese Buddhist texts or the analysis...