Buddhist Monks and Business Matters: Still More Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India

Gregory Schopen

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Buddhist Monks and Business Matters

Still More Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India

Gregory Schopen

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2004

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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.

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Contributor: Gregory Schopen Gregory Schopen is Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University and Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to his international appointments, Schopen has served on the faculties of Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University of Texas, Austin. His publications include Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks (1997), Buddhist Monks and Business Matters(2004), and Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India (2005), all published by the University of Hawai'i Press.

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Religion, Bible and Theology Religious Studies Buddhism

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
CHAPTER I .The Good Monk and His Money in a Buddhist Monasticism of “the Mahâyâna Period” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
CHAPTER II. Art, Beauty, and the Business of Running a Buddhist Monastery in Early Northwest India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
CHAPTER III. Doing Business for the Lord Lending on Interest and Written Loan Contracts in the Mûlasarvâstivâda-vinaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
CHAPTER IV .Deaths, Funerals, and the Division of Property in a Monastic Code Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
CHAPTER V .Dead Monks and Bad Debts Some Provisions of a Buddhist Monastic Inheritance Law Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	122
CHAPTER VI. Monastic Law Meets the Real World A Monk’s Continuing Right to Inherit Family Property in Classical India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
CHAPTER VII .The Monastic Ownership of Servants or Slaves Local and Legal Factors in the Redactional History of Two Vinayas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	193
CHAPTER VIII .The Lay Ownership of Monasteries and the Role of the Monk in Mûlasarvâstivâdin Monasticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
CHAPTER IX. Marking Time in Buddhist Monasteries On Calendars, Clocks, and Some Liturgical Practices Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	260
CHAPTER X. Ritual Rights and Bones of Contention More on Monastic Funerals and Relics in the Mûlasarvâstivâda-vinaya Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	285
CHAPTER XI. The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Codes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
CHAPTER XII .Immigrant Monks and the Protohistorical Dead The Buddhist Occupation of Early Burial Sites in India Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	360
CHAPTER XIII. What’s in a Name The Religious Function of the Early Donative Inscriptions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	382
CHAPTER XIV. If You Can’t Remember, How to Make It Up Some Monastic Rules for Redacting Canonical Texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	395
INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	409
INDEX OF TEXTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	411
INDEX OF SUBJECTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415

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9780824873912

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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824873912

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