How to behave: Buddhism and modernity in colonial Cambodia 1860-1930

摘要

In How to Behave, Anne Hansen traces a shift in what Khmer Buddhist writers saw as the ethical and religious ideas most relevant to their time and place. In the mid-nineteenth century, the dominant form of Khmer religious imagination was of a morally constructed universe whose physical and temporal structures reflected 'cycles of decline and regeneration that mirrored the contiguous decline and regeneration of adherence to the Dhamma among sentient beings' (p. 20).