1998/01/01 by David Gosling, David L. Gosling · 1 citation
Medicine · Social Sciences · #Anthropology #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography #Asian studies #Buddhism #China #Context (archaeology) #Gender studies #History #Law #Medicine #Philosophy #Political science #Social science #Sociology #Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies #Theology #Tibetan medicine #Traditional medicine #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
paper · doi:10.1163/030382498x00102
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Abstract While the community development activities of Thai monks have received a good deal of attention, little consideration has been given to women, who are traditionally excluded from full membership of the sangha. These are, however, women lay practitioners of Buddhism known as mae chii, who are increasingly undertaking social roles which are similar and, in some cases, complementary to those of the monks. Such roles on the part of both monks and mae chii need to be set within the context of Tambiah's work on the worldly aspects of Thai Buddhism and his emphasis on the need to explore the continuities and the transformations between the anthropology and the history of religion.