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This volume brings together thirteen essays by leading scholars of
Chinese and Indian civilisation from Europe, North America and
Asia. The essays cover a wide range of covering a wide range of
topics in Indian and Chinese culture and religion and offer fresh
insights into the study of the Asian traditions,
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.
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters is the fourth in? a
series of collected essays by one of today's most distinguished
scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles Gregory Schopen once
again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed
to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived,
understood, and studied.
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters is the fourth in? a
series of collected essays by one of today's most distinguished
scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles Gregory Schopen once
again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed
to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived,
understood, and studied.
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