[Buddha-l] {Theravada, Pali, Cambodia} the embryo in the canon (and in current ritual traditions)

[Eisel Mazard]

J.K.,

Don't worry, "some of my best friends are anthropologists".

However, to indulge in Venn diagram reasoning for a moment, the
anthropology of Cambodia deserves a great deal of criticism; within
that circle, the anthropology of Buddhism of Cambodia is even worse.

The aforementioned article has completed peer-review, and should
appear on the internet in June (I don't know if it appears on paper
before or after it appears on the internet, but it's a moot point if
your local library doesn't subscribe to Taiwanese journals of world
religions).  Thus, the direct answer to your question is that you will
have to wait.

It is listed here:
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2012, June, the next issue of 南華《世界宗教學刊》[同行評審] (Nanhua's peer-reviewed
Journal of World Religions) will publish my article "Problems of
'Canon' and 'Reason' in Theravāda Studies: Cultural Anthropology
Encounters the Pali Canon (巴利文大藏經), from Cambodia to Yunnan".  This
will be in English only; I'm hoping to eventually publish the Chinese
translation elsewhere.
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https://profiles.google.com/118222702679452306115/about


The critique (alluded to) is diluted with a great deal of constructive
and helpful material that will benefit anthropologists and other
non-specialists, both in employing canonical materials for comparison,
and in being aware of the biases that enframe those resources in the
English-language secondary (and tertiary) sources.

E.M.