Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand Africa author David Chandler provides a

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this brief and highly readable volume is a welcome step towards developing a fuller history of Northern Thailand

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Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand Africa author David Chandler provides aHow did early Buddhists actually encounter the seminal texts of their religion? What were the attitudes held by monks and laypeople toward the written and oral Pali traditions? In this pioneering work, Daniel Veidlinger explores these questions in the context of the northern Thai kingdom of Lan Na. Drawing on a vast array of sources, including indigenous chronicles, reports by foreign visitors, inscriptions, and palm leaf manuscripts, he traces the