World Conqueror and World Renouncer
A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background

Table of Contents

Part I:
1. Introduction: Reconstructing a Journey
2. From Rajadharma (the King's "Whole Duty") to Dharmaraja (the "Righteous Ruler")
3. The Brahmanical Theory of Society and Kingship
4. The Early Buddhist Conception of World Process, Dharma, and Kingship
5. Asoka Maurya: The Paradigm
6. Thai Kingship and Polity in Historical Perspective 7. The Galactic Polity
8. The Kingdom of Ayutthaya: Design and Process
9. Asokan and Sinhalese Traditions Concerning the Purification of the Sangha
10. The Sangha and the Polity: From Ayutthaya to Bangkok
11. The Nineteenth-Century Achievements of Religion and Sangha
Appendix to Chapter 11: The Symbolization of Monarchy in the Nineteenth Century
12. The Sangha Acts of 1902, 1941, and 1963
Part II:
13. The Composition and Distribution of Religious Personnel: What the Figures Say
14. Monkhood as an Avenue of Social Mobility
15. Monastic Careers and Monastic Network
Appendix to Chapter 15: Monastic Networks in Christian Europe and Thailand
16. Patronage of the Sangha and the Legitimation of the Polity
17. Reformism and Ideological Transformation Based on Tradition
18. Missionary Monks (Thammathud) and National Development
Appendix to Chapter 18: The Monks' Universities
19. The Politics of National Development and the Symbols c Legitimacy
20. Dialectical Tensions, Continuities, Transformations, and the Uses of the Past

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