ติดต่อเรา (02) 800-2630
ติดต่อเรา (02) 800-2630ติดต่อเรา (02) 800-2630Ph.D. in the Study of Religions, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Theravada Buddhism, early modern Thai Buddhism, Pre-modern Buddhist meditation and texts in Thailand and Lao, Buddhism and colonisation, Thai Buddhism and sociology
Published Book:
1. Brian Bocking, Phibul Choompolpaisal, Laurence Cox, Alicia M Turner (eds). 2016. A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860-1960. Routledge. Online version available in 2016. First printed version in 2015.
Published Articles:
1. Choompolpaisal, Phibul. 2021. “Boran Kammatthan (Ancient Theravāda) Meditation Transmissions from Late Ayutthaya to Rattanakosin periods” Buddhist Studies Review. 38 (2): 225-252.
2. Choompolpaisal, Phibul. 2022 “Contextualizing Tai Buddhist manuscripts in the 21st century: Preliminary research on databases in Thailand and beyond and the revival of Buddhist manuscript culture.” Manuscript Cultures and Epigraphy in the Tai World, edited by Volker Grabowsky. Silkworm Books: Chiang Mai. pp.291-326.
3. Choompolpaisal, Phibul. 2019. “Nimitta and Visual Methods in Siamese and Lao Meditation Traditions from the 17th century to the Present Day.” Contemporary Buddhism. 20 (1): 152-183.
4. Skilton, Andrew and Phibul Choompolpaisal. 2017 “How to Deal with Wind Illnesses: Two Short Meditation Texts from Buddhist Southeast Asia” in Buddhism and Medicine: An Anthology of Premodern Sources, edited by C. Pierce Salguero. Columbia University Press. pp.425-432.
5. Choompolpaisal, Phibul. 2016. “Tai-Burmese-Lao Buddhisms in the ‘modernizing’ of Ban Thawai (Bangkok): the dynamic interaction between ethnic minority religion and British–Siamese centralization in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries” in A Buddhist Crossroads: Pioneer Western Buddhists and Asian Networks 1860-1960, edited by Brian Bocking, Phibul Choompolpaisal, Laurence Cox, Alicia M Turner (eds) (2016). Routledge.
6. Choompolpaisal, Phibul. 2015. “Political Buddhism and the Modernisation of Thai Monastic Education: from Wachirayan to Phimonlatham (1880s-1960s)” Contemporary Buddhism. 16 (2): 1-23.
7. Skilton, Andrew and Phibul Choompolpaisal. 2015. “The Ancient Theravāda Meditation System, Borān Kammaṭṭhāna: ānāpānasati in Kammatthan Majjima Baeb Lamdub.” Buddhist Studies Review. 32 (2): 207-229.
8. Skilton, Andrew and Phibul Choompolpaisal. 2014. “The Old Meditation (boran kammatthan), a pre-reform Theravāda meditation system, from Wat Ratchasittharam: the pīti section of the kammatthan matchima baeb lamdap.” ASEANIE. 33: 83-116.
9. Choompolpaisal, Phibul. 2013. “Tai-Burmese-Lao Buddhisms in the ‘modernizing’ of Ban Thawai (Bangkok): the dynamic interaction between ethnic minority religion and British–Siamese centralization in the late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries” Contemporary Buddhism. 14 (1): 94-115.
10. Choompolpaisal, Phibul and Andrew Skilton. 2011. ‘Handlist of manuscripts at Wat Ratchasittharam.’ (Available for download at http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley/finding-resources/special/projects/hidden-collections/manuscripts-at-wat-ratchasittharam).
11. Choompolpaisal, Phibul. 2008. “Constructive Constructs: Unravelling the Influence of Weber’s Sociology on Theravada Buddhist Studies Since the 1960s” Contemporary Buddhism. 9 (1): 31-76.
Phibul Choompolpaisal is Lecturer in Religious Studies and Dean of the College of Religious Studies (CRS), Mahidol University. His research interests include early modern Thai Buddhism, the dynamic interactions between political Buddhism and colonisation, pre-reformed Thai/Tai meditation texts, monastic politics and the role of early Western monks, especially the Irish monk U Dhammaloka.
Phibul Choompolpaisal received his BSc in Engineering from Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, before taking an MA in the Study of Religions at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where he also completed his PhD in Buddhist Studies. In 2012 he was Post-doctoral Research Fellow at University College Cork (Ireland). He worked with Prof Brian Bocking to carry out research on Wat Ban Thawai in Bangkok where the first Irish monk Dhammaloka went to in 1903. From August 2011 till August 2015 he worked as a researcher specialising in Thai/Tai meditation manuscripts and texts for the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. From September 2013 to June 2019 he worked as Research Fellow in Buddhism at King’s College London. His research focused on a study of Thai/Tai meditation texts from Ayutthaya to early Rattanakosin period. In August 2019 he started working at CRS, where he has become Dean since 21 June 2021.
