Reconstituting the Divided Sangha:
Buddhist Authority in Post-Conflict Cambodia

By Benjamin Lawrence

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This chapter explores how the Thammayut Nikaya in Cambodia was always something of an elite, royalist project by outlining its history from its nineteenth century introduction to Cambodia through its enshrinement in the 1993 constitution and waning influence under Great Supreme Patriarch Tep Vong.

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Published in 2022 in “Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law” (Tom Ginsburg and Ben Schonthal ed.) by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.

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    title={{R}econstituting the {D}ivided {S}angha: {B}uddhist {A}uthority in {P}ost-{C}onflict {C}ambodia},
    author={Benjamin Lawrence},
    booktitle={Buddhism and Comparative Constitutional Law},
    editor={Tom Ginsburg and Ben Schonthal},
    publisher={Cambridge University Press},
    address={Cambridge, UK},
    year=2022,
    month=nov,
    pages={220--238},
    chapter=11,
    keywords={cambodian},
    doi={10.1017/9781009286022.015},
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    url={https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/9A273EC21BA3EE644855A32F416C9726/9781009286046c11_220-238.pdf/reconstituting-the-divided-sangha.pdf}
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