Justin McDaniel is associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Riverside.

Acknowledgments
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Introduction
Part One | Structural Mechanisms: The Institutional History of Monastic Education
1. From the Sala Vat to the Institut Bouddhique
2. Wandering Librarians
3. Kings and Universities
Part Two | Proximate Mechanisms: Toward a Curricular History of Monastic Education
4. Genres, Modes, and Idiosyncratic Articulations
5. The Culture of Translation
6. Canons and Curricula
Part Three | Vernacular Landscapes: Teaching Buddhism in Laos and Thailand
7. From Manuscript to Television
8. Philosophical Embryology
Conclusion
Notes
Note on Manuscripts, Archives, Monastic Libraries, and Catalogs
Bibliography
Index