Acknowledgments ................................................ ix
Note on Transcription ......................................... xii
Introduction .................................................... 3
Part I Structural Mechanisms
The Institutional History of Monastic Education
1 From the Sala Vat to the Institut Bouddhique ................ 25
2 Wandering Librarians ........................................ 69
3 Kings and Universities ...................................... 92
Part II Proximate Mechanisms
Toward a Curricular History of Monastic Education
4 Genres, Modes, and Idiosyncratic Articulations ............. 119
5 The Culture of Translation ................................. 161
6 Canons and Curricula ....................................... 191
Part III Vernacular Landscapes
Teaching Buddhism in Laos and Thailand
7 From Manuscript to Television .............................. 207
8 Philosophical Embryology ................................... 228
Conclusion .................................................... 247
Notes ......................................................... 259
Note on Manuscripts, Archives, Monastic Libraries, and
Catalogs ...................................................... 313
Bibliography .................................................. 317
Index ......................................................... 347
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