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Unfolding Buddhism: Communal scripts, localized translations, and the work of the dying in Cambodian chanted Leporellos / By Trent Thomas Walker.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: 2018. University of California, BerkeleyDescription: 1628 pages 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 294.3  WAL
Dissertation note: Thesis (Ph.D)--University of California, Berkeley, 2018. A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Buddhist Studies in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Summary: This dissertation examines Cambodian leporellos, or folded-paper manuscripts, that contain chants for Buddhist end-of-life rites. Grounded in a catalog that details the provenance, materiality, and content of 70 such leporellos, as well as transcriptions, editions, and translations of the 195 Pali, Khmer, and Siamese texts they contain, this study reveals a corpus of chants that illuminates Cambodian Buddhism in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. This textual corpus and the paratexts furnished by the leporellos themselves combine to show how Cambodians mad Buddhist chants locally relevant for the end of life. By reading these data alongside Siamese, Lao, and Lanna parallels, this dissertation also highlights Cambodia's participation in a broader Khmer-Tai Buddhist world.

Thesis (Ph.D)--University of California, Berkeley, 2018.

A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Buddhist Studies in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley

This dissertation examines Cambodian leporellos, or folded-paper manuscripts, that contain chants for Buddhist end-of-life rites. Grounded in a catalog that details the provenance, materiality, and content of 70 such leporellos, as well as transcriptions, editions, and translations of the 195 Pali, Khmer, and Siamese texts they contain, this study reveals a corpus of chants that illuminates Cambodian Buddhism in the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. This textual corpus and the paratexts furnished by the leporellos themselves combine to show how Cambodians mad Buddhist chants locally relevant for the end of life. By reading these data alongside Siamese, Lao, and Lanna parallels, this dissertation also highlights Cambodia's participation in a broader Khmer-Tai Buddhist world.

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