The Power and Authority of Monks in the Contemporary Thai Sangha
Politics is a frequent subject in scholarship on Theravada Buddhism in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. However, considering politics, scholars are most likely to talk about the way that states and/or kings interact with sanghas. They rarely consider how monks engage in powerful activities...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2023
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Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2023, Volume: 24, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 3–31 |
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| Summary: | Politics is a frequent subject in scholarship on Theravada Buddhism in Thailand and elsewhere in Southeast Asia. However, considering politics, scholars are most likely to talk about the way that states and/or kings interact with sanghas. They rarely consider how monks engage in powerful activities within their sanghas and with lay actors. Using ethnographic interactions with powerful monks from 2014 as a starting point, this paper considers the foundations of power that Thai monks rely on, as well as tools that they can deploy to achieve their goals. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7953 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Contemporary buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14639947.2024.2344727 |