Buddhist Monks and Business Matters

Buddhist Monks and Business Matters
Title Buddhist Monks and Business Matters PDF eBook
Author Gregory Schopen
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 444
Release 2004-01-31
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780824827748

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This is the second in a series of collected essays by one of today’s most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. (Publication of a third collection is planned in early 2005.) In these articles, all save one published in various places from 1994 through 2001, 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.

Buddhist Monks and Business Matters

Buddhist Monks and Business Matters
Title Buddhist Monks and Business Matters PDF eBook
Author Gregory Schopen
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 452
Release 2004-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780824825478

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The second in a series of collected essays looking at Indian Buddhism.

Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India

Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India
Title Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India PDF eBook
Author Gregory Schopen
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 408
Release 2005-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 9780824825485

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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.

Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks

Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks
Title Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks PDF eBook
Author Gregory Schopen
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 332
Release 1997
Genre Religion
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Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters

Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters
Title Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters PDF eBook
Author Gregory Schopen
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 482
Release 2014-07-31
Genre Religion
ISBN 0824838815

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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.

Foucault, Buddhism and Disciplinary Rules

Foucault, Buddhism and Disciplinary Rules
Title Foucault, Buddhism and Disciplinary Rules PDF eBook
Author Malcolm Voyce
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 191
Release 2016-12-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1317133781

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This book suggests that previous critiques of the rules of Buddhist monks (Vinaya) may now be reconsidered in order to deal with some of the assumptions concerning the legal nature of these rules and to provide a focus on how Vinaya texts may have actually operated in practice. Malcolm Voyce utilizes the work of Foucault and his notions of 'power' and 'subjectivity' in three ways. First, he examines The Buddha's role as a lawmaker to show how Buddhist texts were a form of lawmaking that had a diffused and lateral conception of authority. While lawmakers in some religious groups may be seen as authoritative, in the sense that leaders or founders were coercive or charismatic, the Buddhist concept of authority allows for a degree of freedom for the individual to shape or form themselves. Second, he shows that the confession ritual acted as a disciplinary measure to develop a unique sense of collective governance based on self regulation, self-governance and self-discipline. Third, he argues that while the Vinaya has been seen by some as a code or form of regulation that required obedience, the Vinaya had a double nature in that its rules could be transgressed and that offenders could be dealt with appropriately in particular situations. Voyce shows that the Vinaya was not an independent legal system, but that it was dependent on the Dharmaśāstra for some of its jurisprudential needs, and that it was not a form of customary law in the strict sense, but a wider system of jurisprudence linked to Dharmaśāstra principles and precepts.

Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms

Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms
Title Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms PDF eBook
Author Shayne Clarke
Publisher University of Hawaii Press
Pages 298
Release 2013-12-31
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0824840070

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Scholarly and popular consensus has painted a picture of Indian Buddhist monasticism in which monks and nuns severed all ties with their families when they left home for the religious life. In this view, monks and nuns remained celibate, and those who faltered in their “vows” of monastic celibacy were immediately and irrevocably expelled from the Buddhist Order. This romanticized image is based largely on the ascetic rhetoric of texts such as the Rhinoceros Horn Sutra. Through a study of Indian Buddhist law codes (vinaya), Shayne Clarke dehorns the rhinoceros, revealing that in their own legal narratives, far from renouncing familial ties, Indian Buddhist writers take for granted the fact that monks and nuns would remain in contact with their families. The vision of the monastic life that emerges from Clarke's close reading of monastic law codes challenges some of our most basic scholarly notions of what it meant to be a Buddhist monk or nun in India around the turn of the Common Era. Not only do we see thick narratives depicting monks and nuns continuing to interact and associate with their families, but some are described as leaving home for the religious life with their children, and some as married monastic couples. Clarke argues that renunciation with or as a family is tightly woven into the very fabric of Indian Buddhist renunciation and monasticisms. Surveying the still largely uncharted terrain of Indian Buddhist monastic law codes preserved in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese, Clarke provides a comprehensive, pan-Indian picture of Buddhist monastic attitudes toward family. Whereas scholars have often assumed that monastic Buddhism must be anti-familial, he demonstrates that these assumptions were clearly not shared by the authors/redactors of Indian Buddhist monastic law codes. In challenging us to reconsider some of our most cherished assumptions concerning Indian Buddhist monasticisms, he provides a basis to rethink later forms of Buddhist monasticism such as those found in Central Asia, Kaśmīr, Nepal, and Tibet not in terms of corruption and decline but of continuity and development of a monastic or renunciant ideal that we have yet to understand fully.