The Center for Khmer Studies welcomes Prof. John Marston, Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de México to the CKS Lecture Series in Phnom Penh for a talk entitled:
Student Monks, Temples, Pilgrims and Donors:
Cambodian Buddhism in Sri Lanka and India
Date: 18th July 2014
Time: 6 - 7 pm
Venue:
CKS Phnom Penh
234 Street 450
Tuol Tumpung II, Chamkamorn,
Phnom Penh
Please Confirm attendance by 17/7/2014
Email: puthea_sim[atmark]khmerstudies.org or call 023 991 937
Abstract:
This talk explores the transnationalism of Cambodian Buddhism by looking at a number of inter-related phenomena taking place since the early 1990s in Sri Lanka and India:
· Cambodian monks pursuing education,
· Buddhist pilgrimage by Cambodian groups,
· the building of Cambodian-style temples,
· and, underpinning all of this, religious donation - by Cambodians from Cambodia itself as well as the overseas Cambodian community.
The talk asks: to what extent do these transnational processes tell us something significant about the direction of contemporary Cambodian Buddhism?
John Marston is a professor at the Center for Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de México in Mexico City. His interest in Cambodia grew out of work with Cambodian refugees in the 1980s, and he has been coming to Cambodia since 1989. He completed a doctorate in anthropology at University of Washington in 1997. He has edited three collections of articles: History, Buddhism and New Religious Movements in Cambodia; Anthropology and Community in Cambodia; and Ethnicity, Borders, and the Grassroots Interface with the State.
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Sim Puthea
Center for Khmer Studies
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
