Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transcription -- Introduction -- Part I 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 II 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 III: 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.