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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 183–184.
Published: 01 November 1976
...Charles F. Keyes Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership . By E. Michael Mendelson , Edited By John P. Ferguson . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1975 . 400 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $19.50 Copyright © Association for Asian...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 41 (4): 883–885.
Published: 01 August 1982
...Donald K. Swearer The Role of the Sangha in Modern Thailand . By Ruth-Inge Heinze . Taipei : Orient Cultural Service with Chinese Association for Folklore (Asian Folklore and Social Life Monographs 93), 1977 . xiv, 279 pp. Maps, Plates, Tables, Glossary, Bibliography, Appendixes. N.p...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1982) 42 (1): 226–227.
Published: 01 November 1982
...John P. Ferguson From Sangha to Laity: Nationalist Movements of Burma, 1920–1940 . By U Maung Maung . New Delhi : Manohar (Australian National University, Monograph on South Asia, No. 4), 1980 . xvi , 311 pp. Maps, Bibliography, Notes, Glossary, Index. N.p. Copyright © Association...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 374–375.
Published: 01 February 1983
.... Solheim II, pp. 102-111. Asian and Pacific Archaeology Series, No. 2. Honolulu: Social Science Research Institute, University of Hawaii. Solheim, Wilhelm G., II. 1980. "Searching for the Origins of the Orang Asli." Federation Museums Journal 25 (n.s 61-75. On Review of The Role of the Sangha in Modern...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (2): 474–475.
Published: 01 February 1985
...Clark D. Neher Buddhism and Politics in Thailand: A Study of Sociopolitical Change and Political Activism in the Thai Sangha . By Somboon Suksamran . Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies , 1982 . Illustrations, Bibliography. x, 179 pp. $12.50 (paper). Copyright ©...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 38 (1): 210–211.
Published: 01 November 1978
... colleagues, the China watchers and Sovietologists. To do this with the present book would have made it a more profoundly welcome addition to the scholarly literature. Columbia University JAMES F. GUYOT Political Buddhism in Southeast Asia: The Role of the Sangha in the Modernization of Thailand. BY SOMBOON...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 453–454.
Published: 01 May 1987
... intervals henceforth. Meanwhile we all owe Huffman a great debt of gratitude for the skill and devotion with which he has produced this indispensable reference work. JAMES A. MATISOFF University of California, Berkeley Sangha, State, and Society: Thai Buddhism in History. By YONEO ISHII. Translated by PETER...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (4): 761–778.
Published: 01 August 1970
...Heinz Bechert Abstract The emergence of an historiographical tradition in Ceylon was caused by the importance of an unbroken succession of ordinations in the Sangha for the survival of Theravada Buddhism and by the emergence of the Sinhalese nation. One of the main factors of this nation-building...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (3): 646–671.
Published: 01 August 2024
... or impactful than other types of monastic activism, such as the varieties of chauvinistic nationalism that have risen to prominence in recent years? This article draws on three case studies—Myanmar, Thailand, and Sri Lanka—to offer one answer: sangha capture , the strategic use of law, bureaucracy, patronage...
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in Breaking the Saffron Wave?: Sangha Capture in South and Southeast Asia
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2024
FIGURE 1 Structure of the Sangha Organization in Myanmar according to official Ma Ha Na website. The website uses the alternative spelling samgha rather than the standard sangha . http://www.mahana.org.mm/en/the-samgha-organization-of-different-levels/the-structure-of-the-samgha-organization
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in Breaking the Saffron Wave?: Sangha Capture in South and Southeast Asia
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 August 2024
FIGURE 2 Structure of the Thai sangha body according to Mahachulalongkorn University web page ( http://mcupress.mcu.ac.th/site/bud06.php , June 23, 2021). Thank you to Thanaphat Tum Thongpaibool for locating and translating this copy.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1979) 38 (4): 671–688.
Published: 01 August 1979
...Michael Aung Thwin Abstract Throughout Burmese history people donated money, land, and labor to the sangha in the hope of acquiring merit and ensuring rebirth in a better existence. Each dynasty was confronted with the flow of wealth from state properties and taxable public holdings to tax-free...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1953) 12 (2): 149–162.
Published: 01 February 1953
... by the same token impatient of popular apathy and resistance, which were strongly reinforced by religious traditionalism. The viewpoint of the influential Buddhist monastic community ( Sangha ) was poles removed from that of the sophisticated radicals. The traditionalist lore of the Buddhist teachers...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (3): 551–567.
Published: 01 May 1971
... of Therevada Buddhism were united into a national religious system. In recent years, the Thai government has attempted to involve the Buddhist Sangha in efforts to promote economic development among the Thai peasantry and assimilation of tribal peoples into Thai society. While the policies designed...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2008) 67 (1): 107–142.
Published: 01 February 2008
...; increased lay participation, particularly in meditation practice and leadership of the Buddhist community; and increased participation by women in the leadership of the Sangha. In this paper, I call into question the universality of these forms by examining a contemporary Theravāda Buddhist community...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 184–185.
Published: 01 November 1976
..., Index. $17.50 184 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the Order and convening what the Burmese call from the military or from left-wing political the Fifth Buddhist Council, whose purpose it was groups. A large part of the Sangha simply was to "purify" the Pali canon. In fact, many in the "passive" and continued...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (4): 753–769.
Published: 01 August 1980
... 45235, edicts 10, 44, 89.
Ferguson
Cf. John P.
, “The Symbolic Dimensions of the Burmese Sangha” (Ph.D. diss., Cornell Univ. , 1975 ), pp. 164 –66. 28
Thi-rí-ú-zana
, Làw-ká-byu-ha kyàn [Treatiseof customary usages] ed.
Lat
Ù Hpò
( Rangoon : Baho Press , 1968 ), pp...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 36 (1): 182–183.
Published: 01 November 1976
... work stands as a longneeded scholarly synthesis of major published materials, for which we remain in her debt. J O H N A. MACDOUGALL University of Alabama in Huntsville Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership. BY E. MICHAEL MENDELSON, EDITED BY J O H N P. FERGUSON...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (2): 241–266.
Published: 01 February 1977
... in the Sangha. See also my
“Modernizing Implications of 19th Century Reforms in the Thai Sangha,”
CAS , VIII ( 1975 ), pp. 8 – 23
. 54 See references in n. 27 above. 55 Tambiah, BSC , p. 256, notes the importance of literacy in this connection; see also his “Literacy in a Buddhist...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1978) 37 (3): 597–598.
Published: 01 May 1978
... into which the sangha (the body of bhikkhus) is presently divided. The early chapters occasionally seem laden with an overabundance of detail not conspicuously or immediately relevant to the contemporary political scene; but the description derived from obscure and probably ephemeral materials and numerous...
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