Buddhist trends in Southeast Asia
By: edited by Trevor Ling.
Contributors: Ling, Trevor Oswald.
Series: Social issues in Southeast Asia
Publisher: Institute ofSoutheast Asian Studies
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: Buddhism -- Social aspects -- Asia, Southeastern.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction / by Trevor Ling; title: 2. Sangha reforms and renewal of Sasana in Myanmar : historical trends and contemporary practice / by Tin Maung Maung Than; title: 3. Re-interpreting the Traiphuum phra ruang : political functions of Buddhist symboliosm in contemporary Thailand / by Peter A. Jackson; title: 4. Buddism, political authority, and legitimacy in Thailand and Cambodia / by Somboon Susamran; title: 5. Singapore, Buddhist development in a secular state / by Trevor Ling.