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SUMMARY:(P74) Understanding Thai Buddhism through contemporary literature
LOCATION:K10 | 3.05
DESCRIPTION:The study of Buddhism as a religion and of Thai literature have
  tended to lead separate lives. There are nevertheless many novelists, film
 -makers and poets who make use of Buddhist symbols, narratives, ideology an
 d language in their work. This panel will discuss ways in which we can quer
 y such Buddhist-inflected references in order to make sense of Thai approac
 hes to politics, modernity, sexuality and time as they are represented in l
 iterature. The papers presented will focus on particular works of literatur
 e and authors, analyzing the ways in which a fuller understanding of Buddhi
 st language, contemporary debates and developments (both local and global) 
 in Buddhism can be used to gain a deeper understanding of that material and
 , by extension, contemporary Thai Buddhism itself. The papers presented wil
 l show that the study of contemporary Thai literature reveals Thai Buddhism
  to be not merely a static tradition or belief but a constantly re-negotiat
 ed, politically-involved facet of life and thought in contemporary Thailand
 . We will also discuss ways in which Buddhist-inflected tellings of time an
 d gender, amongst other things, present new possibilities for making sense 
 of particularly modern problems. Some questions that the panelists might co
 nsider include:\n\n? How is Buddhism deployed as a key ‘tradition’ in liter
 ature and art that must be preserved against the onslaught of foreignness a
 nd commercialism?\n? How, alternatively, can it be used to critique such na
 tionalist or neo-traditionalist perspectives?\n? How do conflicts about wha
 t Buddhism should and should not be in the modern world manifest in literat
 ure and how are these related to contemporary politics?\n? Can ‘Buddhism’ a
 s a category of analysis reveal negotiate between the ‘local’ and ‘global’ 
 in understanding Thai interpretations of the present and politics?\n? Do Bu
 ddhist-inflected tellings of time and space present new conceptual possibil
 ities for dealing with uniquely modern problems, such as environmental issu
 es?
URL:https://euroseas2021.org/panels/understanding-thai-buddhism-through-contemporary-literature
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