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Bones, Stones and Buddhist Monks - Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India (Paperback, New)
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Bones, Stones and Buddhist Monks - Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India (Paperback, New)
Series: Studies in the Buddhist Traditions
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From the Preface "The present volume provides an essential
foundation for a social history of Indian Buddhist monasticism.
Challenging the popular stereotype that represented the
accumulation of merit as the domain of the layperson while monks
concerned themselves with more sophisticated realms of doctrine and
meditation, Professor Schopen problematizes many assumptions about
the lay-monastic distinction by demonstrating that monks and nuns,
both the scholastic elites and the less learned, participated
actively in a wide range of ritual practices and institutions that
have heretofore been judged 'popular,' from the accumulation and
transfer of merit; to the care of deceased relatives;.... Taken
together, the studies contained in this volume represent the basis
for a new historiography of Buddhism, not only for their critique
of many of the idees recues of Buddhist Studies but for the
compelling connections they draw between apparently disparate
details." -Donald S. Lopez, Jr.
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