Monday, May 6, 2013

Home work I, semester 2013


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.

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  1. My name is Khamvone Boulyaphonh, I am a researcher (of) ^ at the University of Hamburg, and ^ I am working (for) ^ on the project “the Lao Sangha and Modernity (” leading) ^ ,” led by Prof. Dr. Volker Grabowsky, head of ^ the Thaiistik department (,) ^ in the Asian-Africa Institute. My task is (researching and analyzing) ^ to research and analyze the documents (,) which (relating) ^ are related to the activities of the Lao Sangha ^((i.e., the community of Buddhist monks and nuns in Laos)). These documents chronicle such things as daily life in the monasteries, Lao festivals and ceremonies,^ the construction of Buddhist (places) ^ buildings, and (traveling) ^travels abroad (of) ^by monks in the twentieth century.

    Parallel to my activities as a researcher, I am also studying (in) ^at the Ph.D. level at the University of Hamburg. The topic of my dissertation is “The (life, work and Social role ) ^ Life, Work, and Social Role of Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thera (1920-2007), Vat Saen Sukharam, Luang Prabang (” who) ^ .” Pha Khamchan Virachitta Maha Thera, who was my master (, whose ) ^in my own time as a monk, was a major influence on the Buddhist Sangha in Luang Prabang, and his collections are (being nowadays) ^ presently being 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.

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