Through a case study of a Buddhist village in the southeastern part of Bangladesh, this research examines the issues of Western education and modernization within the socio-political context of Bangladesh. This study exclusively focuses on the Barua community. It adopts an anti-…
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The historian of Southeast Asian Buddhism faces many questions regarding Buddhist identity. Using the case study of Arakan (western Burma), two critical questions are pursued in this dissertation: why did Theravada Buddhism emerge as a religious identity for the majority of Arak…
Various attempts have been made to understand the Buddhism of Central Java, especially as reflected in ancient statuary and archaeological monuments, but little effort has been expended on examining the Buddhist sculpture of the East Javanese period (circa tenth–fifteenth centur…
Since the 1970s, new forms of spirit mediumship emerged in urban Thailand. Spirits and their mediums answered the modern needs of clients as the country underwent a major transition from an agriculture-based society to a globalized industrial economy. Meanwhile, there has been a…
In this dissertation I argue that the Thai government's application of Thai Buddhism escalates the violence in southern Thailand. Using ethnography and state and monastic archives from different militarized Buddhist temples along the border of Malaysia, I show how Buddhist monks…
The purpose of this dissertation is to demonstrate the vitality and diversity of Chinese Buddhist art in China from the tenth to fourteenth centuries through a close examination of images from the Buddhist cave site Feilaifeng [Peak that Flew in (from India)] located in the Hang…
This thesis explores the conversion experiences of the Buda, an ethnic Sasak minority in northern Lombok-Indonesia, long primitivized by dominant Sasak Muslim groups for practicing non-religious rituals prior to their formal conversion to Buddhism at the outset of the New Order …
A religious garment dating back to the lifetime of its founder, the kesa has endured centuries, even millennia, as a religious vestment and is still being made today. Kesa are the patchwork mantles worn by priests and monks of the Buddhist faith. Their structure was said to be o…