Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border 9780824866525

Table of contents :
Contents
Series Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Languages, Pronunciation, and Names
Abbreviations
Introduction. Buddhism and Monastic Education, Within and Across Borders in the New Millennium
Part 1. Shaping Buddhist Lives in Sipsongpannā
1. Local Monks in Sipsongpannā
2. Fortune-Telling And False Monks: Defining and Governing Religion
3. Monks on the Move. Dai-Lue Monastic Networks
Part 2. Educating the Monks of Sipsongpannā
4. Learning to Read in Village Temples and Chinese Public Schools
5. The Fragility of Autonomy: Curricular Education at Dhamma Schools
6. Transnational Buddhist Education and the Limits of the Buddhist Ethnoscape
Afterword
Notes
Glossary
References
Index
About The Author

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