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050 00 $aDS529.7$b.C53 2006
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100 1 $aCharney, Michael W.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2003102439
245 10 $aPowerful learning :$bBuddhist literati and the throne in Burma's last dynasty, 1752-1885 /$cMichael W. Charney.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bCenters for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan,$c[2006], ©2006.
300 $axii, 297 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 271-285) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tThe rise of a regional monastic community -- $gCh. 2.$tThe social, demographic, and political context -- $gCh. 3.$tRoyal ancestors -- $gCh. 4.$tMonastic reform -- $gCh. 5.$tHistory -- $gCh. 6.$tBurman ness -- $gCh. 7.$tEuropean learning -- $gCh. 8.$tThe new information technology -- $gCh. 9.$tSangha and Dhammaraja -- $gCh. 10.$tThe Mandalay ket thas -- $gCh. 11.$tThe state.
520 1 $a"Powerful Learning is the first intellectual history of one of the great Buddhist empires of Southeast Asia, Konbaung Burma before the British conquest. The book challenges the notion of the court and the monastic order as static institutions by examining how competition within and between them prompted major rethinking about the intellectual foundations of indigenous society and culture."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aBurma$xHistory$yKonbaung dynasty, 1752-1885.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87001513
650 0 $aBuddhists$zBurma$xIntellectual life$y19th century.
650 0 $aBuddhism and state$zBurma$xHistory$y19th century.
852 00 $bglx$hDS529.7$i.C53 2006