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Thai Buddhist studies and the authority of the Pali Canon 1
Author: Martin Seeger (Show Biography)
DOI: 10.1080/14639940701295039
Publication Frequency: 2 issues per year
Published in:  Contemporary Buddhism, Volume 8, Issue 1 May 2007 , pages 1 - 
18
Subject: Buddhism;
Formats available: HTML (English) : PDF (English)

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Abstract
In Thai Buddhism, a high number of examples show that during the last 20 
years or so the triangular interrelationship between hermeneutics, canonical 
authenticity and authority has been - more or less consciously - the subject 
of numerous, often very fervent debates. This has made clear the importance 
of the Pali canon as a centre of reference for normative and formative 
authority in Thai society. Also, during these debates the conservatism of 
Thai Theravada, and thereby its identity, has been challenged in various 
ways, e.g. by Western influenced text-critical or intertextual approaches, 
by reference to superior religious insight and by requests for feminist 
interpretations of the P?li canon. At the same time, however, and in 
response to these challenges, the rationale for Thai Theravada's 
conservatism and identity have become very clearly articulated, to an extent 
that has arguably never happened before in Thai history. By looking at some 
of the debates in which the foremost Thai Buddhist thinker and scholar monk 
P. A. Payutto (1939- ) has been involved, I seek to gain a deeper 
understanding of what these debates can teach us about the specific context 
and state of Thai Buddhist studies.
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