Facing the Cambodian Past Environment Distinguished Professor of World Religions

Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School

In early 1942

Bangsbo has done the fields of Tibetan studies and minority education in China a great service by collecting and summarizing the state of scholarly knowledge about education in Tibet up to 2003

which involved the recording on film of 360 hours of performances by the four masters of Yangzhou storytelling

and memoirs

Facing the Cambodian Past Environment Distinguished Professor of World ReligionsThese nineteen essays cover a range of themes and problems as perceived by a leading student of Cambodias past. They include studies of the leper king myth at Angkor, post Angkorean normative poems, nineteenth century perceptions of the moral order, and royally sponsored human sacrifices in rural Cambodia in the 1870s. Other essays deal with aspects of the colonial period and the revolutionary era (19751979). The collection closes with two essays