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Foucault, Buddhism and Disciplinary Rules (Hardcover)
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Foucault, Buddhism and Disciplinary Rules (Hardcover)
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This book suggests that previous critiques of the rules of Buddhist
monks (Vinaya) may now be reconsidered in order to deal with some
of the assumptions concerning the legal nature of these rules and
to provide a focus on how Vinaya texts may have actually operated
in practice. Malcolm Voyce utilizes the work of Foucault and his
notions of 'power' and 'subjectivity' in three ways. First, he
examines The Buddha's role as a lawmaker to show how Buddhist texts
were a form of lawmaking that had a diffused and lateral conception
of authority. While lawmakers in some religious groups may be seen
as authoritative, in the sense that leaders or founders were
coercive or charismatic, the Buddhist concept of authority allows
for a degree of freedom for the individual to shape or form
themselves. Second, he shows that the confession ritual acted as a
disciplinary measure to develop a unique sense of collective
governance based on self regulation, self-governance and
self-discipline. Third, he argues that while the Vinaya has been
seen by some as a code or form of regulation that required
obedience, the Vinaya had a double nature in that its rules could
be transgressed and that offenders could be dealt with
appropriately in particular situations. Voyce shows that the Vinaya
was not an independent legal system, but that it was dependent on
the Dharmasastra for some of its jurisprudential needs, and that it
was not a form of customary law in the strict sense, but a wider
system of jurisprudence linked to Dharmasastra principles and
precepts.
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