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2010.
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This paper presents an ethnographic account of Buddhist 'nuns' involved in the teaching of Pali language and Abhidhamma in contemporary Thailand. It also reflects on both the emic-Buddhist (Pali and modern vernacular) and etic-interpretative (English-language) vocabularies which have been used to describe these women and their social role(s) and status(es). The aims of the paper are to go beyond the Weberian vocabulary usually used to describe what we will call 'professionally celibate Buddhist women', to escape from the ubiquitous emphasis on the issue of re-establising the Nuns' Order (bhikkhuni--s) in the modern world in scholarship dealing with such women, and to encourage further ethnography and further civilizational interpretation of gender and asceticism.
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122904
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2013.
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Looking closely at the figures of the Brahmin and the hermit in Thai Buddhism, the author argues that, despite the prevalence of these figures in modern and pre-modern Thai art, literature and ritual, it should not be assumed that the presence of statues of Brahmins, hermits, or deities such as Indra, Siva, Laksmi, Ganesa and Brahma represents the presence of 'Hindu' influence or Hinduism in Thailand. The author argues that when we separate Hindu figures from the study of Thai Buddhist practice we do not see them as part of Thai Buddhism.
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