Spreading the Dhamma
Subtitle: Writing, Orality, And Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand (Southeast Asia--Politics, Meaning, Memory)
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Published: October 31, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9780824830243
Subjects: Buddhism; Sacred texts; Pali literature; Communication; Religion; Religion - World Religions; Thailand, Northern; History and criticism; Thailand; Buddhism - General; Buddhism - Rituals & Practice; History; Religious aspects
Description: "How did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including indigenous chronicles, reports by foreign visitors, inscriptions, and palm-leaf manuscripts, he traces the role of written Buddhist texts in the predominantly oral milieu of northern Thailand from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.