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Thompson, Ashley (2016) 'Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past.' In: Jerryson, Michael, (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism. New York: Oxford University Press.

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Abstract

Attentive to the oxymoron of its title, this chapter looks for insight into the contemporary moment through an extended examination of traditions, or symptoms, rooted in the past. Accordingly, the chapter explores a series of transformative periods of Cambodian history as a means of sketching a description of the distinctive traits of contemporary Cambodian Theravada Buddhist traditions. These include the assimilation of Buddhism with the state embodied by the monarch, (dis)investment in language, temples as sites of sociopolitical organization or disruption as it were, and the recurrent denaturing of Buddhism even, though not only in attempts to restore the religion’s supposed authenticity.

Item Type: Book Chapters
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > School of Arts > Department of the History of Art & Archaeology
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of History of Art and Archaeology
ISBN: 9780199362387
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.013.32
Date Deposited: 26 Feb 2016 08:36
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/22077

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