World conqueror and world renouncer : a study of Buddhism and polity in Thailand against a historical background
World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand.
Print Book, English, 1976
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1976
History
viii, 557 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
9780521211406, 9780521292900, 0521211409, 0521292905
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From Rajadharma (the king's "whole duty") to Dharmaraja (the "righteous ruler")
The Brahmanical theory of society and kingship
The early Buddhist conception of world process, Dharma, and kinghsip
Asoka Maurya : the paradigm
Thai kingship and polity in historical perspectives
The galactic polity
The kingdom of Ayutthaya to Bangkok
The nineteenth-century achievements of religion and Sangha
The Sangha acts of 1902. 1941, and 1963
The composition and distribution of religious personnel : what the firgures say
Monkhood as an avenue of social mobility
Monastic careers and monastic network
Patronage of the Sangha and the legitimation of the polity
Reformism and ideological transformation based on tradition
Missionary monks (Thammathud_ and national development
The politics of national development and the symbols of legitimacy
Dialectical tensions, continuities, transformations, and the use of the past