The Monastery Rules : Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet / / By Berthe Jansen.
"The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bc...
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Place / Publishing House: | Oakland, California : : University of California Press,, [2018] ©[2018] |
Year of Publication: | 2018 |
Language: | English |
Series: | South Asia across the disciplines
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) :; PDF, digital file(s). |
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Table of Contents:
- Documents that establish the rules: the genre of Chayik
- Historical and doctrinal frameworks of monastic organization in Tibet
- Entrance to the monastery
- Monastic organization
- Monastic economy and policy
- Relations with the laity: the roles of the monastery in society
- Justice and the judicial role of the monastery
- Maintaining (the) order: conclusions.