From buffer state to political integration: the Bangkok internal colonization of the Lanna states -- The traditional Lanna sangha before the Bangkok centralization -- Restructuring the Lanna sangha into the Siam sangha -- Resistance and compromise -- Resistance or maintaining culture? -- Conclusion -- Abbreviation -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Shifts in Buddhist authority in Sipsongpanna under Chinese colonialism -- Locating Sipsongpanna as a Chinese colony -- Buddhist organization under the Jao Phaendin -- Buddhist organization after Mao -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Managing and governing Theravada Buddhists -- Chapter 7: "Colonial governmentality": Legal and administrative technologies of the governance of Sri Pada temple in Sri Lanka -- Introduction -- Traditional management of the temple: kings, monks, and aristocrats -- British colonial project(s) -- Temple disputes and British governmental technologies -- New administrative technologies for the management of temple affairs -- Ambiguity of the technologies: disputes between DBTC, legal Trustees, and the chief monks -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 8: The thathanabaing project: Monastic hierarchies and colonialism in Burma -- Colonial knowledge on monastic hierarchies in Upper Burma -- Monastic structures and centralized authority in the sangha of Upper Burma before colonialism -- Monastic structures under colonialism -- The thathanabaing project and the development of the Thudama Gaing -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 9: The Institut bouddhique in Laos: Ambivalent dynamics of a colonial project -- (Re)constructing Laos -- Toward the building of a "national Buddhism" in French Laos -- The Institut bouddhique: a colonial project for an "Indochinese Buddhism