Spreading the Dhamma: writing, orality, and textual transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand

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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.rnVeidlinger examines how the written word was assimilated into existing Buddhist and monastic practice in the region, considering the use of manuscripts for textual study and recitation as well as the place of writing in the cultic and ritual life of the faithful. He shows how manuscripts fit into the economy, describes how they were made and stored, and highlights the understudied issue of the cult of the book" in Theravâda Buddhism. Looking at the wider Theravâda world

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Southeast Asia--politics, meaning, memory.

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BQ 568 N675 V45 2006

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: University of Hawaiʻi Press., 2006

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xii, 259 p. : map ; 24 cm.

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English

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9780824830243

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BQ568.N675 V45 2006

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and laypeople who supported the expansion of the new medium of writing.rnrnThroughout the book

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