Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India 9780824873929
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India is the fourth in a series o
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Table of contents :
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
