Cambodian Buddhism
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A short, political history of the Saṅgha in contemporary Cambodia.
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This critique, most commonly expressed as criticism of “rich” temples and monks, juxtaposes an idealised Buddhist monastery against the increasing influence of political groups and [wealthy] individuals within local wats.
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Cambodia is strewn with places of national, local or, most frequently, village importance, considered as potent places, that is to say, places that are said to have agency and a positive or negative power of interaction with human beings. This paper emphasises the constituent principles of potency using case studies based on ethnographic research conducted between 2007 and 2015 in Pursat province, western Cambodia.
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Who can be held accountable for violence if everyone is, at once, perpetrator and victim? Given this mode of being-in-the-world, how do people find resilience in the face of past trauma?
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The Theravada modification is a hundred years prior to the conventional 16th century estimation and is not associated with renewed use of Angkor. Instead it relates to the Ayutthayan occupation of Angkor in the 1430s and 40s during a major period of climatic instability.
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the inscriptions of the past refer often to a corpus of women as “nuns”. What are we to make of this?
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On the pyre the fire burns bright
Setting alight this searing pain
With only my fate to blame
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