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Pali Scholarship “in Its Truest Sense” in Burma: The Multiple Trajectories in Colonial Deployments of Religion

Turner, Alicia·2018·The Journal of Asian Studies
DOI 10.1017/s0021911817001292
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Why are histories of colonialism and religious transformation in Southeast Asia so often told as inextricably interrelated? Why were Buddhist movements identified as both the locus for resistance to colonialism and the central means of constructing colonial modernity? Part of the reason lies in how religion served as both a European technique of colonial governmentality and a local repository of techniques for comprehending and responding to change. More than this, religion seems to have offered a multivalent medium for a variety of innovations. Pali examinations were central to Buddhist reform in colonial Burma at the turn of the twentieth century but also fomented conflicts between the colonial state and monastic factions over the purpose of language study. However, beyond such conflicts, Pali examinations proved fertile grounds for Buddhist laypeople to experiment with multiple interpretations of what Buddhist modernity might mean in Burma.

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  • In 1895, the colonial government re-established the pathama-pyan, and Turner (2018) shows that the exam's purpose was again political, this time to pacify the monks, as the British pretended to express their 'concern' for better Pali scholarship.

    “In 1895, the colonial government re-established the pathama-pyan. However, Turner (2018) shows that the exam's purpose was again political. This time to pacify the monks, as the British pretended to express their 'concern' for better Pali scholarship.”

    From Directions of Learning, Learning Directions: Myanmar-Burmese Buddhist Nuns, Responsibility, and their Experiences with the Scriptural Examinations (2021) · cites this paper as Turner 2018

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Authors
Turner, A.
Corresponding author
Turner, Alicia
ORCID
Turner, Alicia
Venue
The Journal of Asian Studies
Publisher
Duke University Press
Published
2018-01-10
Volume
77
Issue
1
Pages
123-138
ISSN
  • 0021-9118 (ISSN-L)
  • 1752-0401
DOI
10.1017/s0021911817001292
OpenAlex
W2783670771
Cited by
7
References
16
Citations by year
2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1
FWCI
18.37
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations
The Journal of Asian Studies (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies
Keywords
colonialism, Buddhism, Buddhist reform, colonial modernity, colonial governmentality, colonial Burma, language and religion, colonial resistance

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