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

Buddhist Monks and Business Matters : : Still More Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India / / Gregory Schopen.

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 displ...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Schopen, Gregory,
Place / Publishing House:Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2004]
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Year of Publication:2004
Language:English
Series:Studies in the Buddhist Traditions
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • CHAPTER I .The Good Monk and His Money in a Buddhist Monasticism of "the Mahâyâna Period"
  • CHAPTER II. Art, Beauty, and the Business of Running a Buddhist Monastery in Early Northwest India
  • CHAPTER III. Doing Business for the Lord Lending on Interest and Written Loan Contracts in the Mûlasarvâstivâda-vinaya
  • CHAPTER IV .Deaths, Funerals, and the Division of Property in a Monastic Code
  • CHAPTER V .Dead Monks and Bad Debts Some Provisions of a Buddhist Monastic Inheritance Law
  • CHAPTER VI. Monastic Law Meets the Real World A Monk's Continuing Right to Inherit Family Property in Classical India
  • CHAPTER VII .The Monastic Ownership of Servants or Slaves Local and Legal Factors in the Redactional History of Two Vinayas
  • CHAPTER VIII .The Lay Ownership of Monasteries and the Role of the Monk in Mûlasarvâstivâdin Monasticism
  • CHAPTER IX. Marking Time in Buddhist Monasteries On Calendars, Clocks, and Some Liturgical Practices
  • CHAPTER X. Ritual Rights and Bones of Contention More on Monastic Funerals and Relics in the Mûlasarvâstivâda-vinaya
  • CHAPTER XI. The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Codes
  • CHAPTER XII .Immigrant Monks and the Protohistorical Dead The Buddhist Occupation of Early Burial Sites in India
  • CHAPTER XIII. What's in a Name The Religious Function of the Early Donative Inscriptions
  • CHAPTER XIV. If You Can't Remember, How to Make It Up Some Monastic Rules for Redacting Canonical Texts
  • INDEX OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
  • INDEX OF TEXTS
  • INDEX OF SUBJECTS

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