Table of Contents

Contents: Upāsaka – Upasaka – Laity – Lay follower – Buddha’s followers – Buddhist – Buddhist community – Religious experience in Buddhism – Nikāya discourse – Buddhist discourse – Sutta – Sutra – Pāli discourse – Pāli canon – Theravada Buddhism – Early Buddhism – Oral literature – Oral narrative – Orality in Pāli texts.

About the Author

Sompornnuch Tansrisook studied Thai, Pāli and Sanskrit at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok (Thailand) as well as Comparative Religion in Bonn (Germany). Currently she is a lecturer in the Section of Pāli and Sanskrit at the Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University.