Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-7cvxr Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T19:57:22.447Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Thailand - Buddhism, Legitimation, and Conflict: The Political Functions of Urban Thai Buddhism. By Peter A. Jackson. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1989, Pp. xiii, 245. Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Charles F. Keyes
Charles F. Keyes
Affiliation:
University of Washington
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Reviews: General
Information
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 1991 , pp. 233 - 237
Copyright
Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1991

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Reynolds, Craig J., “The Buddhist Monkhood in Nineteenth Century Thailand” (Unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, Cornell University, 1973)Google Scholar and “Buddhist Cosmography in Thai History, with Special Reference to Nineteenth-Century Culture Change”, Journal of Asian Studies, 35.2 (1976): 203–220CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Again, the work of Craig Reynolds is conspicuous by its absence in Jackson's discussion. In addition to “The Buddhist Monkhood in Nineteenth Century Thailand”, see also Vajirañanavarorasa, Prince, Autobiography: The Live of Prince-Patriarch Vajirañana of Siam, 1860–1921, translated, edited, and introduced by Reynolds, Craig J. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1979)Google Scholar.

3 Mahanikay-Thammyut: Khwaam-hat-yaeng Phaay-nai Khorng Song Thai Kap Kaan-sorng-seep Amnaat Pok-khrorng Rawaang Faay Aanaajak Lae Saasanaakak (Mahanikay-Thammayut: The internal contradictions of the Thai sangha, and the association of administrative power between the secular and religious spheres). Nonthaburi: Samnak-phim Santitham, 2528 [1985]. (I have retained Jackson's system of transliteration, although it is not one which I use myself.)

4 I refer here to my paper, “Buddhism and National Integration in Thailand”, Journal of Asian Studies 30.3 (1971): 551–68CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For some reason Jackson has chosen to quote from the preliminary unpublished version of this paper rather than from the published one.

5 Keyes, Charles F., “Buddhist Politics and Their Revolutionary Origin in Thailand”, International Political Science Review 10.2 (1989): 121–42CrossRefGoogle Scholar.