Theravada Buddhism in Colonial Contexts

Cover Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Note on diacritics and names -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Theravada Buddhism in colonial contexts -- Colonial enterprises in Theravada worlds -- The organization of the book -- Colony/nation -- Centralization in internal colonies -- Managing and governing Theravada Buddhists -- Students of the empire -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Colony/Nation -- Chapter 2: To be Burmese is to be Buddhist: Formations of Buddhist modernity in colonial Burma -- Modern Buddhist identities in regional contexts -- Civil Buddhism in a colonial context: the Young Men's Buddhist Association -- Trajectories of Buddhist maximalists -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Interactions between Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism in colonial Singapore -- Introduction -- Colonial Singapore and the policy of religion -- The early years of Buddhism in colonial Singapore -- Foundations of the Theravada-Mahayana relationship -- Interaction and influence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: A tale of two colonialisms: K. Sri Dhammananda and the making of a missionary monk -- Colonial Malaya and the Sinhalese diaspora -- Sri Lankan Buddhist temples in Malaya -- The early life of K. Sri Dhammananda -- Arrival in Malaya and the Malayan Communist insurgency -- Templer and Dhammananda: reaching out to new communities -- Colonialism across the Indian Ocean: Venerable Dhammananda's defense of Buddhism -- Local repertoires: Buddhist non-sectarianism, inter-religious -- Conclusion: a tale of two colonialisms -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Part II: Centralization in internal colonies -- Chapter 5: Lanna Buddhism and Bangkok centralization in late nineteenth to early twentieth century

From buffer state to political integration: the Bangkok internal colonization of the Lanna states -- The traditional Lanna sangha before the Bangkok centralization -- Restructuring the Lanna sangha into the Siam sangha -- Resistance and compromise -- Resistance or maintaining culture? -- Conclusion -- Abbreviation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Shifts in Buddhist authority in Sipsongpanna under Chinese colonialism -- Locating Sipsongpanna as a Chinese colony -- Buddhist organization under the Jao Phaendin -- Buddhist organization after Mao -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Managing and governing Theravada Buddhists -- Chapter 7: "Colonial governmentality": Legal and administrative technologies of the governance of Sri Pada temple in Sri Lanka -- Introduction -- Traditional management of the temple: kings, monks, and aristocrats -- British colonial project(s) -- Temple disputes and British governmental technologies -- New administrative technologies for the management of temple affairs -- Ambiguity of the technologies: disputes between DBTC, legal Trustees, and the chief monks -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: The thathanabaing project: Monastic hierarchies and colonialism in Burma -- Colonial knowledge on monastic hierarchies in Upper Burma -- Monastic structures and centralized authority in the sangha of Upper Burma before colonialism -- Monastic structures under colonialism -- The thathanabaing project and the development of the Thudama Gaing -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: The Institut bouddhique in Laos: Ambivalent dynamics of a colonial project -- (Re)constructing Laos -- Toward the building of a "national Buddhism" in French Laos -- The Institut bouddhique: a colonial project for an "Indochinese Buddhism

Lao work in and agendas for the Institut -- Structural imbalances and anti-colonial activities -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Part IV: Students of the empire -- Chapter 10: Beni Madhab Barua and the study of Buddhism in Calcutta c.1918 to 1948 -- Beni Madhab Barua's formative influences -- Barua's academic Buddhism -- Barua's activist Buddhism -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 11: Buddhist republicanism in Cambodia: A colonialist legacy? -- Introduction -- Colonialist knowledge production and fragmentation in the sangha -- Toward a Khmer Republic -- Justifying republicanism -- Sources of Khieu Chum's republicanism -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Glossary -- Index