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Hansen: The Nature of World 109NOTES1. Stuart Hall, David Held, Don Hubert, and Kenneth Thompson, eds.,Modernity: An Introduction to Modern Societies (Cambridge: BlackwellPublishers, 1996), p. 175.2. I follow the transliteration system originally developed by Saveros Pou(Saveros Lewitz, “Note sur la transliteration du Cambodgien,” Bulletin del’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient, vol. LV [1969]: pp. 163–169), andslightly revised by Franklin Huffman (Franklin E. Huffman and ImProum, English-Khmer Dictionary [New Haven and London: Yale UniversityPress: 1978], p. 685).3. Sometimes transliterated as: Ly Théan Teng.4. L∆ Dhåm Teç, Aksarsåstr Khmaer [Khmer Literature] (Phnom Penh: SeçÇuon Huot, 1961), p. 121.5. L∆ Dhåm Teç, Aksarsåstr Khmaer, p. 147.6. Judith Jacob, The Traditional Literature of Cambodia: A PreliminaryGuide (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), p. 49. I refer to the Reynoldsand Reynolds translation of the Thai text (Frank E. Reynolds and ManiReynolds, trans., The Three Worlds According to King Ruang [Berkeley:Asian Humanities Press, Motilal Banarsidass, 1982]).7. Joseph Guesdon, “La littérature khmère et le Buddhisme,” Anthropos,vol. I (1906): pp. 92, 94–96, 101–103; Adhémard Leclère, Le Bouddhisme auCambodge (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1899). See also Khing Hoc Dy, Contributionà l’histoire de la littérature khmère: littérature de l’epoque “classique”(XVème-XIXème siècles) (Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 1991), pp. 47, 205;Judith Jacob, The Traditional Literature of Cambodia, pp. 36–41, 49; GeorgeCoedès, “The Traibhumikatha, Buddhist Cosmology and Treaty on Ethics,”East and West, vol. VII.4 (1957): pp. 349–352; Frank E. Reynolds, “TheMany Lives of the Buddha: A Study of Sacred Biography and TheravådaTradition,” in The Biographical Process: Studies in the History and Psychologyof Religion, eds. Frank E. Reynolds and Donald Capps (TheHague: Mouton, 1976); Forrest McGill, “Painting the ‘Great Life’,” InSacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and SoutheastAsia, ed. by Juliane Schober (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press,1997), pp. 200–202.8. Reynolds and Reynolds, The Three Worlds According to King Ruang,pp. 135–172. A version of the story is found in Suç S’∆v Siddhattho [Bra©På¬åt’ Uttamalikhit], Kappa-kathå (Phnom Penh: Pa√√ågår Pîo Híat, B.E.2495/C.E. 1952), pp. 24–34, which was composed in the 1940s, using olderversions (apparently) of the Visuddhimagga, the Cakkivattisutta, and