Thai politics today and the presence of The spread of Theravada Buddhism, which no longer helps Thailand ? In 2008 , Thai Chinese about over 6 millions have total controle over the social fabric of Thailand . What is the Thai culture today? Is it Thai Chinese culture that prevails ?
==================================== After Jayavarman VII's death, Kambuja entered a long period of decline that led to its eventual disintegration. A. The Thai were a growing menace on the empire's western borders. B. The spread of Theravada Buddhism, which came to Kambuja from Sri Lanka 1. by way of the Mon kingdoms(Siam ) , challenged the royal Hindu and Mahayana Buddhist cults. 2. Preaching austerity and the salvation of the individual through his or own her efforts, 3. Theravada Buddhism did not lend doctrinal support to a society ruled by an opulent royal establishment maintained through the virtual slavery of the masses. (source : Library of Congress Country Studies) --- On Tue, 10/7/08, Sarin Nou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Sarin Nou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PARALLEL : Angkor Wath CULTURE & Lehman Brothers MELTDOWN ? To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008, 1:02 AM THINK ABOUT THIS CONNECTION ? 1 bad connection caused atom smasher shutdown The Associated Press Mon, Oct 6, 2008 (1:54 p.m.) A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said Monday. The fault was probably a poor soldering job on one of the particle collider's 10,000 connections, said Lyn Evans, project leader of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the European Nuclear Research Organization. Only one fault in 10,000 isn't bad, "but it cost dearly," Evans said. It will take at least two months for the repair, meaning the collider cannot be restarted until spring, after its mandatory shutdown due to high electricity costs during the winter. Evans said he still hasn't been able to examine the damage because the collider is too cold to be opened. The machine operates at extremely cold temperatures to take advantage of superconductivity _ the ability of some metals to conduct electricity without any resistance near absolute zero degrees. It has to be warmed gradually to room temperature over five weeks so that humans can work inside and make repairs, Evans said. Then it will take another five weeks to re-chill it. The collider was started before a global audience on Sept. 10, with beams of protons being fired at nearly the speed of light around the collider, first in one direction and then in the other. The electrical fault occurred nine days later. Before the failure, the plan had been to step up power on the collider so that scientists could start with test collisions of subatomic particles before the winter shutdown. That will have to wait until next April, Evans said.. He said he expected it will then take about a month _ until the end of May _ to get the machine to high energy. "It was a hard blow for us," he said. The failure occurred during the final test of the collider _ a large tube running around the circumference of a 17-mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border at Geneva. All the other seven sections of the tunnel had passed the test. CERN specialists have already figured out that a connector between electromagnets failed and heated up, causing a magnet "quench," or shutdown. It apparently melted a hole in the tube, causing a leak that spilled about a ton of the liquid helium used to chill that section. The high-energy collisions enable physicists to understand better how the smallest bits of matter _ and everything and everyone _ are made. They also hope it will take them even closer to the "Big Bang," which many theorize was the massive explosion that formed the universe. By colliding protons from the nucleus of hydrogen atoms at high energy, the CERN machine is designed to recreate, on a minuscule scale, a view of what matter looked like in the rapid cooling one-trillionth of a second after the explosion. --- On Mon, 10/6/08, sacravatoons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: sacravatoons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: PARALLEL : Angkor Wath CULTURE & Lehman Brothers MELTDOWN ? To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 10:38 PM #yiv104114277 #yiv1322899598 DIV { MARGIN:0px;} COMPARE THE WORD DISINTEGRATION.. COMPARE THE CAUSES AND DECLINE BETWEEN THE TWO CULTURES : ANGKOR WATH CULTURE AND LEHMAN BROTHERS OR WALL STREET IN MODERN TIME. LOOK TO WALL STREET ON OCTOBER 6,2008 ,AFTER THE LEHMAN BROTHERS MELTDOWN: WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF THIS MELTDOWN AND DISINTEGRATION? DOW PLUNGED RECORD 800... Pope says world financial system is 'built on sand'... London suffers sharpest fall since '87... GOODBYE, 10,000 Panic engulfs global stock markets... PAPER: 'We risk a disintegration of global finance within days'... DOES THE WORD DISINTERGRATION HAVE THE SAME MEANING AND IMPLICATIONS AS THE ONE WE TALK FROM THE ANGKOR WATH PERIOD AFTER KING JAYAVARMAN VII ERA? WHAT ARE THE CAUSES OF THE LEHMAN BROTHERS MELTDOWN compare to the Angkor period & culture disintegration ? WHAT IS THE COMMON DENOMINATOR? =============================== CAMBODIA : the Angkor period & causes of decline CAUSES OF DELCINE : After Jayavarman VII's death, Kambuja entered a long period of decline that led to its eventual disintegration. A. The Thai were a growing menace on the empire's western borders. B. The spread of Theravada Buddhism, which came to Kambuja from Sri Lanka 1. by way of the Mon kingdoms(Siam ) , challenged the royal Hindu and Mahayana Buddhist cults. 2. Preaching austerity and the salvation of the individual through his or own her efforts, 3. Theravada Buddhism did not lend doctrinal support to a society ruled by an opulent royal establishment maintained through the virtual slavery of the masses. (source : Library of Congress Country Studies) ================================================================ ----- Original Message ---- From: kangaroo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2008 11:55:22 AM Subject: Re: CAMBODIA : the Angkor period & causes of decline You have to remember that Cambodian king indulged to fulfill their own thirst, which lead to the lost part of the Angkor empire. It happned for a very long time, and Cambodians are still crying today. Actually, they still cry against the Veitnamese and Thai. Yet they don't think about themselves. They continue to weaken their own society by using their own personal indulging over no one but their own people in their own country. Then they continue to blame on Vietnamese and Thai. On Oct 4, 7:51 am, Sarin Nou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CambodiaTHE ANGKORIAN PERIOD : he Eastern Baray (reservoir or tank),evidence > of which remains to the present time. Its dikes, which may be seen today, are > more than 6 kilometers long and 1.6 kilometers wide. The elaborate system of > canals and reservoirs built were the key to Kambuja's prosperity for half a > millennium. By freeing cultivators from dependence on unreliable seasonal > monsoons, they made possible an early "green revolution" that provided the > country with large surpluses of rice. Carvings show that everyday Angkorian > buildings were wooden structures not much different from those found in > Cambodia today. The impressive stone buildings were not used as residences by > members of the royal family. Rather, they were the focus of Hindu or Buddhist > cults that celebrated the divinity, or buddhahood, of the monarch and his > family. The king,regarded as divine, owned both the land and his subjects. > The Brahman priesthood A small class of officials, who > numbered about 4,000 in the tenth century. The commoners, who were burdened > with heavy corvée (forced labor) duties. There was also a large slave class > > CAUSES OF DELCINE : > After Jayavarman VII's death, Kambuja entered a long period of decline that > led to its eventual disintegration. > A. > B. > Preaching austerity and the salvation of the individual through his or own > her efforts, Theravada Buddhism did not lend doctrinal support to a society > ruled by an opulent royal establishment maintained through the virtual > slavery of the masses. (from > The Thai were a growing menace on the empire's western borders. The spread of > Theravada Buddhism, which came to Kambuja from Sri Lanka by way of the Mon > kingdoms, challenged the royal Hindu and Mahayana Buddhist cults. Library of > Congress Country Studies) > The Angkorian period lasted from the early ninth century to the early > fifteenth century A.D. > In terms of cultural accomplishments and political power, this was the golden > age of Khmer civilization. > The great temple cities of the Angkorian region, located near the modern town > of Siemreab, are a lasting monument to the greatness of Jayavarman II's > successors. . > The Angkorian complexes were built. The construction of a huge reservoir > north of the capital to provide irrigation for wet rice cultivation. T > The construction of the temple city complex of Angkor Wat. > Angkorian society was strictly hierarchical. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Sarin Nou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [email protected] > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, October 4, 2008 9:08:34 AM > Subject: CAMBODIA : Historical Background > > CAMBODIA : Historical Background > * The Time of Greatness, A.D. 802-1431 > * Period of Decline, 1431-1863 > * The French Protectorate, 1863-1954 > * The Japanese Occupation, 1941-45 > * The First Indochina War, 1945-54 > * The Second Indochina War, 1954-75 Military Developments Under the > Khmer Rouge > * Khmer Rouge Armed Forces > * Khmer-Vietnamese Border Tensions > * Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cambodia Discussion (CAMDISC) - www.cambodia.org" group. This is an unmoderated forum. 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