Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand Africa “Larger-than-life Thai artist Thawan Duchanee

“Larger-than-life Thai artist Thawan Duchanee is one of the foremost representatives of Thai and Asian art

Harrison is Senior Lecturer in Thai Cultural Studies at SOAS

founding three historically important dynasties in the heartland of Myanmar at Pinya

the recognition of women and men are explored in this volume as manifestations of ideas about femininity and masculinity

He is also director of the Bristol-Mekong Project

Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand Africa “Larger-than-life Thai artist Thawan DuchaneeHow did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including indigenous chronicles, reports by foreign visitors, inscriptions, and palm leaf manuscripts, he traces the