Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
PART ONE
1 Introduction: Reconstructing a Journey ....................... 3
2 From Rajadharma (the King's "Whole Duty") to Dharmaraja
(the "Righteous Ruler") ...................................... 9
3 The Brahmanical Theory of Society and Kingship .............. 19
4 The Early Buddhist Conception of World Process, Dharma,
and Kingship ................................................ 32
5 Asoka Maurya: The Paradigm .................................. 54
6 Thai Kingship and Polity in Historical Perspective .......... 73
7 The Galactic Polity ........................................ 102
8 The Kingdom of Ayutthaya: Design and Process ............... 132
9 Asokan and Sinhalese Traditions Concerning the
Purification of the Sangha ................................. 159
10 The Sangha and the Polity: From Ayutthaya to Bangkok ....... 179
11 The Nineteenth-Century Achievements of Religion and
Sangha ..................................................... 200
Appendix to Chapter 11: The Symbolization of Monarchy in
the Nineteenth Century ..................................... 225
12 The Sangha Acts of 1902, 1941, and 1963 .................... 230
PART TWO
13 The Composition and Distribution of Religious Personnel:
What the Figures Say ....................................... 265
14 Monkhood as an Avenue of Social Mobility ................... 288
15 Monastic Careers and Monastic Network ...................... 313
Appendix to Chapter 15: Monastic Networks in Christian
Europe and Thailand ........................................ 360
16 Patronage of the Sangha and the Legitimation of the
Polity ..................................................... 365
17 Reformism and Ideological Transformation Based on
Tradition .................................................. 401
18 Missionary Monks (Thammathud) and National Development ..... 434
Appendix to Chapter 18: The Monks' Universities ............ 464
19 The Politics of National Development and the Symbols of
Legitimacy ................................................. 472
20 Dialectical Tensions, Continuities, Transformations, and
the Uses of the Past ....................................... 515
Bibliography .................................................. 531
Index ......................................................... 541
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