Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. ABBREVIATIONS xiii
5. Nuns
6. CHAPTER I. The Urban Buddhist Nun and a Protective Rite for Children in Early North India 3
7. CHAPTER II. On Emptying Chamber Pots without Looking and the Urban Location of Buddhist Nunneries in Early India Again 23
8. CHAPTER III. On Incompetent Monks and Able Urbane Nuns in a Buddhist Monastic Code 47
9. CHAPTER IV. Separate but Equal Property Rights and the Legal Independence of Buddhist Nuns and Monks in Early North India 73
10. CHAPTER V. On the Legal and Economic Activities of Buddhist Nuns Two Examples from Early India 95
11. CHAPTER VI. The Buddhist Nun as an Urban Landlord and a “Legal Person” in Early India 119
12. CHAPTER VII. A New Hat for Hārītī On “Giving” Children for Their Protection to Buddhist Nuns and Monks in Early India 131
13. CHAPTER VIII. On Some Who Are Not Allowed to Become Buddhist Monks or Nuns An Old List of Types of Slaves or Unfree Laborers 157
14. Monks
15. CHAPTER IX. Making Men into Monks 175
16. CHAPTER X. Counting the Buddha and the Local Spirits In A Monastic Ritual of Inclusion for the Rain Retreat 194
17. CHAPTER XI. The Buddhist “Monastery” and the Indian Garden Aesthetics, Assimilations, and the Siting of Monastic Establishments 224
18. CHAPTER XII. On Monks and Menial Laborers Some Monastic Accounts of Building Buddhist Monasteries 251
19. CHAPTER XIII. A Well-Sanitized Shroud Asceticism and Institutional Values in the Middle Period of Buddhist Monasticism 276
20. CHAPTER XIV. The Buddhist Bhikṣu’s Obligation to Support His Parents in Two Vinaya Traditions 311
21. CHAPTER XV. On Buddhist Monks and Dreadful Deities Some Monastic Devices for Updating the Dharma 333
22. Other
23. CHAPTER XVI. Celebrating Odd Moments The Biography of the Buddha in Some Mūlasarvāstivādin Cycles of Religious Festivals 361
24. CHAPTER XVII. Taking the Bodhisattva into Town More Texts on the Image of “the Bodhisattva” and Image Processions in the Mûlasarvâstivâda-vinaya 390
25. CHAPTER XVIII. The Learned Monk as a Comic Figure On Reading a Buddhist Vinaya as Indian Literature 404
26. CHAPTER XIX. On the Underside of a Sacred Space Some Less Appreciated Functions of the Temple in Classical India 432
27. INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES AND INSCRIPTIONS 449
28. INDEX OF TEXTS 451
29. INDEX OF SUBJECTS 455
30. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 461