World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background

S. J. Tambiah

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World Conqueror and World Renouncer

A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background

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S. J. Tambiah

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: November 2010
Print publication year:: 1976
Online ISBN:: 9780511558184
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511558184

Subjects:: Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Asian Studies, Anthropology
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology (15)

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World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand. The book conveys the historical background necessary for full comprehension of the contemporary structural relationship between Buddhism, the sangha (monastic order), and the polity, including the historic institution of kingship. Professor Tambiah delineates the overall relationship, as postulated in early Buddhism, between the monk's otherworldly quest on one side and the this-worldly ordinating role of the monarchy on the other. He also examines the complementary and dialectical tensions that occur in this classical relationship, the king's duty to both protect and purify the sangha being a notable example.

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A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgments
pp vii-viii

PART ONE
pp 1-2

1 - Introduction: Reconstructing a Journey
pp 3-8

2 - From Rajadharma (the King's “Whole Duty”) to Dharmaraja (the “Righteous Ruler”)
pp 9-18

3 - The Brahmanical Theory of Society and Kingship
pp 19-31

4 - The Early Buddhist Conception of World Process, Dharma, and Kingship
pp 32-53

5 - Asoka Maurya: The Paradigm
pp 54-72

6 - Thai Kingship and Polity in Historical Perspective
pp 73-101

7 - The Galactic Polity
pp 102-131

8 - The Kingdom of Ayutthaya: Design and Process
pp 132-158

9 - Asokan and Sinhalese Traditions Concerning the Purification of the Sangha
pp 159-178

10 - The Sangha and the Polity: From Ayutthaya to Bangkok
pp 179-199

11 - The Nineteenth-Century Achievements of Religion and Sangha
pp 200-229

12 - The Sangha Acts of 1902, 1941, and 1963
pp 230-262

PART TWO
pp 263-264

13 - The Composition and Distribution of Religious Personnel: What the Figures Say
pp 265-287

14 - Monkhood as an Avenue of Social Mobility
pp 288-312

15 - Monastic Careers and Monastic Network
pp 313-364

16 - Patronage of the Sangha and the Legitimation of the Polity
pp 365-400

17 - Reformism and Ideological Transformation Based on Tradition
pp 401-433

18 - Missionary Monks (Thammathud) and National Development
pp 434-471

19 - The Politics of National Development and the Symbols of Legitimacy
pp 472-514

20 - Dialectical Tensions, Continuities, Transformations, and the Uses of the Past
pp 515-530

Bibliography
pp 531-540

Index
pp 541-557

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