Sri Lankan monasticism in Canada : monastic adaptations and lay expectations
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Abstract
Since 1976, around thirty Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monks have become residents in Canada. In this thesis, I explore the tenuous position of monks as they navigate both the cultural expectations of diasporic laity and traditional vinaya rules within Canadian social, cultural, and physical environments. Forces of globalism, parochialism, and localism theories (Soucy 2014) frame the context for this analysis. I consider the writings of scholars Busto (1996), Edaugh and Chafetz (2000), Hua (2005) and Kurien (2004), who suggest that ‘marginalization’ pushes diasporic communities into religious institutions and towards religious conservatism. I employ Appadurai’s adaptation of Benedict Anderson’s theory of ‘imagined communities’. Based upon eight ethnographic interviews as well as my personal experience as a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, several categories of conflict are examined. Monks acknowledge that in order to retain their position of authority and legitimacy within the Canadian Sri Lankan community, they must focus on satisfying lay expectations. In this new cultural context, vinaya rules are secondary.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.009 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".