University of Toronto
Tony focuses on the intersection of Pali literature, contemplative practice, and Buddhist statecraft in twentieth-century Southeast Asia. To capture both the substance and context of these interconnections, his sources range from classical Pali exegeses, mid-twentieth-century newspapers, biographies of monks and nuns, government documents, meditation manuals, palm-leaf manuscripts, and stelae collections of scripture. These sources act as a vector for Tony’s philological method informed by vernacular paradigms, but also a critical historiography of texts, practices, and attainments that seeks to uncover how these different spheres influence and support each other in the formation of textual communities and Buddhist polities.
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