Buddhist nuns, monks, and other worldly matters : recent papers on monastic Buddhism in India /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Schopen, Gregory (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2014]
Series:	Studies in the Buddhist traditions.
Subjects:	Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) > India. Buddhist nuns > India. Buddhist monks > India.

Table of Contents:

The urban Buddhist nun and a protective rite for children in early North India
On emptying chamber pots without looking and the urban location of Buddhist
Nunneries in early India again
On incompetent monks and able urbane nuns in a Buddhist monastic code
Separate but equal: property rights and the legal independence of Buddhist nuns and monks in early North India
On the legal and economic activities of Buddhist nuns: two examples from early India
The Buddhist nun as an urban landlord and a "legal person" in early India
A new hat for Hariti: on "giving" children for their protection to Buddhist nuns and monks in early India
On some who are not allowed to become Buddhist monks or nuns: an old list of types of slaves or unfree laborers
Making men into monks
Counting the Buddha and the local spirits in a monastic ritual of inclusion for the rain retreat
The Buddhist "monastery" and the Indian garden: aesthetics, assimilations, and the siting of monastic establishments
On monks and menial labors: some monastic accounts of building Buddhist monasteries
A well-sanitized shroud: asceticism and institutional values in the middle period of Buddhist monasticism
The Buddhist bhikū's obligation to support his parents in two Vinaya traditions
On Buddhist monks and dreadful deities: some monastic devices for updating the dharma
Celebrating odd moments: the biography of the Buddha in some Mulasarvastivadin cycles of religious festivals
Taking the Bodhisattva into town: more texts on the image of "the Bodhisattva" and image processions in the Mulasarvastivada-vinaya
The learned monk as a comic figure: on reading a Buddhist Vinaya as Indian literature
On the underside of a sacred space: some less appreciated functions of the temple in classical India.