Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati and the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885
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Powerful Learning is the first intellectual history of one of the great Buddhist empires of Southeast Asia, Konbaung Burma, before the British conquest. The book challenges the notion of the court and the monastic order as static institutions by examining how competition within and between them prompted major rethinking about the intellectual foundations of indigenous society and culture. The catalyst for this reformation of indigenous thought...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0891480935
ISBN13:9780891480938
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:U of M Center for South East Asian Studi
Length:312 Pages
Weight:1.34 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 6.5" x 9.1"
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