Buddhism, Copying, and the Art of the Imagination in Thailand

This article theorizes new urban religio-scapes in metropolitan Bangkok, a city space of contradictory modernities. Here, I look at two contrasting Buddhist monastic spaces of sanctity from periods of fieldwork between 1998 and 2002. Firstly, as found in the modern semblance of order and discipline...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jim Taylor
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Lucerne 2015-02-01
Series:Journal of Global Buddhism
Online Access:http://www.globalbuddhism.org/jgb/index.php/jgb/article/view/80