HISTORY 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Theravada, Chakri Dynasty, Patrilineality
8 Mar 2016
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Similarities pre-historic cultural traditions, pattern of borrowing textual religion from outside from china, long-term development in terms of territorial expansion, cultural standardization, promotion of religious orthodoxy. Bc vietnam partake in same the territorial & cultural integration, 3 big winners of the mainland (burma, siam, vietnam). [1400s 25 kingdoms, by 1820s only 3 left] Differences: unique geography (very elongated), no central river to unify vietnam (irrawaddy in burma, Chaophraya in siam), meaning vietnam was likely to split in 2 bc difficult communication, transportation. Different relation between vietnam and china vs china with rest of mainland. 3 periods of sinicization [transmission of chinese cultures] (comparable to indianization in the mainland). As a result, vietnam became a neo-confucian rather than theravada buddhism (impact development of communism). China and vietnam to 939 * -first round of sinicization. No significant land barrier between northern vietnam and china (not as a major barrier compare to the gigantic mountain barrier in mainland).
