Acknowledgements ............................................... vi
List of map and figures ...................................... viii
Notes on language .............................................. ix
1 Meditation and monasticism: making the ascetic self in
Thailand ..................................................... i
2 Meditation and religious reform ............................. 26
3 The monastic community: duty and structure .................. 51
4 Meditation as ethical imperative ............................ 70
5 Language and meditation ..................................... 96
6 Monastic duty, mindfulness and cognitive space ............. 116
7 Money, mae chee and reciprocity ............................ 135
8 Hierarchy, gender and mindfulness .......................... 151
9 Monasticization and the ascetic interiority of non-self .... 173
Appendix Ordination transcript for an eight-precept nun
(mae chee) ................................................. 195
Bibliography .................................................. 198
Index ......................................................... 210
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