Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice

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"The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a book-length, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture. Beginning with a coherent history of the presence of religion in the country from its inception to the present day, the book goes on to furnish insights into the distinctive nature of Cambodia's important yet overlooked manifestation of Theravada Buddhist tradition and shows how ...
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"The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a book-length, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture. Beginning with a coherent history of the presence of religion in the country from its inception to the present day, the book goes on to furnish insights into the distinctive nature of Cambodia's important yet overlooked manifestation of Theravada Buddhist tradition and shows how it reestablished itself following almost total annihilation during the Pol Pot period." Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice synthesizes an enormous range of scholarship (most of it in French), complemented by the author's own fieldwork in modern Cambodia. The result is a wide-ranging, well-documented, and comprehensive account of a neglected Southeast Asian tradition.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780824832988
  • Publisher: University of Hawaii Press, The
  • Publication date: 5/28/2008
  • Edition description: New
  • Pages: 352
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Table of Contents

1 Buddhism in Cambodia : from its origins to the fall of Angkor 1
2 The medieval period and the emergence of the Theravada 26
3 Theravada Buddhism in Cambodia : territorial and social lineaments 49
4 Literary and cult traditions 81
5 Cambodian Buddhism under colonial rule 105
6 Buddhism and Cambodian nationalism 131
7 Liberation : the religio-political dimension 157
8 Cambodian Buddhism after the Khmer Rouge 190
App. A Cambodian inscriptions discussed in the book 231
App. B Evidence chart based on materials discussed in chapter 1 233
App. C Ecclesiastical hierarchies in the two Cambodian Buddhist orders 236
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