Book Summary
Presents a unique ethnography of the Thai Buddhist nuns, examines what it implies to be a female ascetic in contemporary Thailand, and analyses how the ordained state for women fits into the wider gender patterns found in Thai society.
Book Details
| Book Name | Making Fields Of Merit: Buddhist Female Ascetics And Gendered Orders In Thailand |
| Author | Monica Lindberg Falk |
| Publisher | University Of Washington Press (Apr 2008) |
| ISBN | 9780295987262 |
| Pages | 283 |
| Language | English |
| Price | 1906 |