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

By Benjamin Lawrence

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This chapter explains the Thammayut Nikaya in Cambodia as an elite, royalist project by outlining its history from its nineteenth-century introduction to Cambodia from Thailand through its enshrinement in the 1993 constitution and its waning influence under the popular 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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