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