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A new form of authoritarianism has emerged in Southeast Asia since the mid-2010s. Some scholars believe that Daoism may have come under Indian influences, because it originated in the southwestern parts of China. (1990) Agama Buddha Maitreya: a modern Buddhist sect in Indonesia, In: Tan, Chee Beng, ed. Crossroad, N.Y.: Crossroad Publishing Company,. 430p., 20p. An equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. Delhi: B.R. Montreal: Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies; Toronto: Museum for Textiles, 1994. 178-186 Hamilton BQ4012 .P73, Bechert, Heinz (1978), German studies of Buddhism in Southeast Asia In: Cultures in encounter: Germany and the Southeast Asian nations: a documentation of the ASEAN Cultural Week, Tubingen, Summer 1977. In Laos it was recognized by the government as a part of the national heritage, and in Cambodia it was even given the status of a state religion. 557p. In Southeast Asia the impact of Buddhism was felt in very different ways in three separate regions. During the next two centuries, Theravada reforms penetrated as far as Cambodia and Laos. 333p. Kathmandu, Nepal. In one episode from the Pali Vinaya, translated by Isaline B. Horner in The Book of the Discipline, the parents of a young man named Upli were confused about how to educate, care for, and provide for the best interests of their beloved son: "By what means could Upli, after our demise, live at ease and not be in want?" In the monastic literature, whenever the Buddha prohibited an action and instituted a rule, he did so to please his disciples. As a result, monastic institutions increased, for example, in Tibet and Mongolia, where thousands of new Buddhist monasteries were built in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Buddhist spirituality: Indian, Southeast Asian, Tibetan, and early Chinese. 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