Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters : : Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India / / Gregory Schopen; ed. by Luis O. Gomez.

• Übergeordnet: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Schopen, Gregory,
• HerausgeberIn: Gomez, Luis O.,
• Ort / Verlag: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• Serie: Studies in the Buddhist Traditions
• Beschreibung: 1 online resource (482 p.)
• Weitere Titel: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; Nuns --; CHAPTER I. The Urban Buddhist Nun and a Protective Rite for Children in Early North India --; CHAPTER II. On Emptying Chamber Pots without Looking and the Urban Location of Buddhist Nunneries in Early India Again --; CHAPTER III. On Incompetent Monks and Able Urbane Nuns in a Buddhist Monastic Code --; CHAPTER IV. Separate but Equal Property Rights and the Legal Independence of Buddhist Nuns and Monks in Early North India --; CHAPTER V. On the Legal and Economic Activities of Buddhist Nuns Two Examples from Early India --; CHAPTER VI. The Buddhist Nun as an Urban Landlord and a "Legal Person" in Early India --; CHAPTER VII. A New Hat for Hārītī On "Giving" Children for Their Protection to Buddhist Nuns and Monks in Early India --; CHAPTER VIII. On Some Who Are Not Allowed to Become Buddhist Monks or Nuns An Old List of Types of Slaves or Unfree Laborers --; Monks --; CHAPTER IX. Making Men into Monks --; CHAPTER X. Counting the Buddha and the Local Spirits In A Monastic Ritual of Inclusion for the Rain Retreat --; CHAPTER XI. The Buddhist "Monastery" and the Indian Garden Aesthetics, Assimilations, and the Siting of Monastic Establishments --; CHAPTER XII. On Monks and Menial Laborers Some Monastic Accounts of Building Buddhist Monasteries --; CHAPTER XIII. A Well-Sanitized Shroud Asceticism and Institutional Values in the Middle Period of Buddhist Monasticism --; CHAPTER XIV. The Buddhist Bhikṣu's Obligation to Support His Parents in Two Vinaya Traditions --; CHAPTER XV. On Buddhist Monks and Dreadful Deities Some Monastic Devices for Updating the Dharma --; Other --; CHAPTER XVI. Celebrating Odd Moments The Biography of the Buddha in Some Mūlasarvāstivādin Cycles of Religious Festivals --; CHAPTER XVII. Taking the Bodhisattva into Town More Texts on the Image of "the Bodhisattva" and Image Processions in the Mûlasarvâstivâda-vinaya --; CHAPTER XVIII. The Learned Monk as a Comic Figure On Reading a Buddhist Vinaya as Indian Literature --; CHAPTER XIX. On the Underside of a Sacred Space Some Less Appreciated Functions of the Temple in Classical India --; INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND INSCRIPTIONS --; INDEX OF TEXTS --; INDEX OF SUBJECTS --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• Zusammenfassung: Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India is the fourth in a series of collected essays by one of today's most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780824873929; 9783110649772; 9783110564136; 9783110752366
• DOI: 10.1515/9780824873929
• Zugangseinschränkungen: restricted access
• Hierarchiestufe: Monografie
• Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: Gregory Schopen; ed. by Luis O. Gomez.

Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India is the fourth in a series of collected essays by one of today's most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that h...