Advance Publication Accepted: August 16, 2024 Published online: November 10, 2025 Women in Thai-Lao Manuscript Culture: Alternative Worship of Text(iles) in Support of Monkhood Saowakon Sukrak* and Silpsupa Jaengsawang** *Faculty of Education, Rajabhat Maha Sarakham University, 80 Nakhon Sawan Road, Talat Sub-district, Mueang District, Mahasarakham Province, 44000 Thailand e-mail: saowakon[at]rmu.ac.th https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8881-1411 **Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Campazzo S. Sebastian, 1686, 30123 Venezia VE, Italy Corresponding author’s e-mail: silpsupa.jaengsawang[at]unive.it https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3284-3936 DOI: 10.20495/seas.25007 Possessing inferior religious status to males, who could be ordained as monks, females played a comparatively minor role in Theravāda Buddhism. Females were generally allowed to be involved in creating items to be … Continue reading Saowakon Sukrak and Silpsupa Jaengsawang “Women in Thai-Lao Manuscript Culture: Alternative Worship of Text(iles) in Support of Monkhood”