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Anne Blackburn explores the emergence of a predominant Buddhist monastic culture in eighteenth-century Sri Lanka, while asking larger questions about the place of monasticism and education in the creation of religious and national traditions. Her historical analysis of the Siyam Nikaya, a monastic order responsible for innovations in Buddhist learning, challenges the conventional view that a stable and monolithic Buddhism existed in South and Southeast Asia prior to the advent of British colonialism in the nineteenth century. The rise of the Siyam Nikaya and the social reorganization that accompanied it offer important evidence of dynamic local traditions. Blackburn supports this view with fresh readings of Buddhist texts and their links to social life beyond the monastery. Comparing eighteenth-century Sri Lankan Buddhist monastic education to medieval Christian and other contexts, the author examines such issues as bilingual commentarial practice, the relationship between clerical and "popular" religious cultures, the place of preaching in the constitution of "textual communities," and the importance of public displays of learning to social prestige. Blackburn draws upon indigenous historical narratives, which she reads as rhetorical texts important to monastic politics and to the naturalization of particular attitudes toward kingship and monasticism. Moreover, she questions both conventional views on "traditional" Theravadin Buddhism and the "Buddhist modernism" / "Protestant Buddhism" said to characterize nineteenth-century Sri Lanka. This book provides not only a pioneering critique of post-Orientalist scholarship on South Asia, but also a resolution to the historiographic impasse created by post-Orientalist readings of South Asian history.

Buddhist monasticism and religious orders --- Buddhism --- History --- Tipiṭaka. --- Tipiṭaka --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Sri Lanka. --- Asgiri Vihāraya. --- Buddhaghosa. --- Buddhism. --- Collins, Steven. --- Copeland, Rita. --- Dagenais, John. --- Dewaraja, Lorna. --- Eco, Umberto. --- Fabian, Johannes. --- Gombrich, Richard. --- Hallisey, Charles. --- Holt, John. --- Irvine, Martin. --- Niyamakanda. --- Nāyakkar dynasty. --- Orientalism. --- Pollock, Sheldon. --- Reid, Anthony. --- Samanakkoḍi. --- Yāpahuva. --- advisory letters. --- discipline, monastic. --- gaṇinnānse. --- identity, monastic. --- language, Pāli. --- literacy. --- manuscripts, monastic. --- monasticism. --- monks: novice. --- pupillary lineage. --- self-questioning. --- textual communities.

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This volume aims to foster interaction between scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies by increasing understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, and ritual practices across Asia and beyond.Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia scrutinizes religious orders (here referring to Sufi ?ar?qas and Buddhist monastic and other ritual lineages) that enabled far-flung local communities to be recognized and engaged as part of a broader world of co-religionists, while presenting their traditions and human representatives as attractive and authoritative to new devotees. Contributors to the volume direct their attention toward analogous developments mutually illuminating for both fields of study, drawing readers' attention to the fact that networked persons were not always strongly institutionalized and often moved through Southern Asia and developed local bases without the oversight of complex corporate organizations.

Islam --- Buddhism --- History --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Religions --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Muslims

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This volume aims to foster interaction between scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies by increasing understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, and ritual practices across Asia and beyond. Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia scrutinizes religious orders (here referring to Sufi?ar?qas and Buddhist monastic and other ritual lineages) that enabled far-flung local communities to be recognized and engaged as part of a broader world of co-religionists, while presenting their traditions and human representatives as attractive and authoritative to new devotees. Contributors to the volume direct their attention toward analogous developments mutually illuminating for both fields of study, drawing readers' attention to the fact that networked persons were not always strongly institutionalized and often moved through Southern Asia and developed local bases without the oversight of complex corporate organizations.

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"An interconnected history of the regions surrounding the Bay of Bengal in the 19th and 20th centuries, weaving together themes of migration, diaspora, ethnicity, religion, culture and the emergence of nationalist politics and state policies."--

South Asia --- South Asia --- Southeast Asia --- Southeast Asia --- Civilization. --- History. --- Civilization. --- History.