PROF Ashley Thompson's Outputs (3)

Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past (2016)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2016). Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past. In M. Jerryson (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Buddhism. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199362387.013.32

Attentive to the oxymoron of its title, this chapter looks for insight into the contemporary moment through an extended examination of traditions, or symptoms, rooted in the past. Accordingly, the chapter explores a series of transformative periods o... Read More about Contemporary Cambodian Buddhist Traditions: Seen from the Past.

Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor (2016)
Book
Thompson, A. (2016). Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315620855

Drawing from more than a decade of field and archival research, this monograph concerns Cambodian cultural history and historiography, with an ultimate aim of broadening and deepening bases for understanding the Cambodian Theravadin politico-cultural... Read More about Engendering the Buddhist State: Territory, Sovereignty and Sexual Difference in the Inventions of Angkor.

A Witness to Genocide: Vann Nath (2016)
Book Chapter
Thompson, A. (2016). A Witness to Genocide: Vann Nath. In J. T. McDaniel, M. M. Rowe, & J. Samuels (Eds.), Figures of Buddhist Modernity in Asia. University of Hawaii Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824858582-007