Home work Khamvone Boulyaphonh
May 5, 2013
My name is Khamvone Boulyaphonh, I am a researcher of
the University of Hamburg, and working for the project “the Lao Sangha and
Modernity” leading by Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky, head of Thaiistik department,
Asian-Africa Institute. My task is researching and analyzing the documents, which
relating to the activities of the Lao Sangha, daily life in the monasteries,
Lao festivals and ceremonies, construction of Buddhist places and traveling
abroad of monks in the twentieth century. I am also studying in the Ph.D. level at the University of Hamburg. The topic of my dissertation is “The
life, work and Social role of Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thera (1920-2007),
Vat Saen Sukharam, Luang Prabang” who was my master, whose collections are being
nowadays researched and preserved in the Buddhist Archive in Luang Prabang, Laos.
My research work and studies will be finished by the end of March, 2015.
