Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand Africa offering easy recipes for home

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this brief and highly readable volume is a welcome step towards developing a fuller history of Northern Thailand

the recognition of women and men are explored in this volume as manifestations of ideas about femininity and masculinity

Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Thai Cultural Studies at SOAS

He is also director of the Bristol-Mekong Project

Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand Africa offering easy recipes for homeHow did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including indigenous chronicles, reports by foreign visitors, inscriptions, and palm leaf manuscripts, he traces the