title | subcat | external_url | authors | year | month | course | tags | publisher | minutes | ||||
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Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border |
podcast |
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2018 |
dec |
monastic-theravada |
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nbn |
66 |
One day these novices come up to me after class and they say, "Mr. Tom, can we talk to you about something?" I say, "Of course" expecting some rich conversation about the religious life or something... and they start breaking out into two or three part harmony
A brief interview about the extensive network of monastic schools in Southeast Asia and the ethnic minorities who leverage them for mobility.