Buddhist Nuns Monks And Other Worldly Matters
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Buddhist Nuns Monks And Other Worldly Matters
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Author : Gregory Schopen
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2014-07-31
Buddhist Nuns Monks And Other Worldly Matters written by Gregory Schopen and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with History categories.
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India 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.
Renunciation And Empowerment Of Buddhist Nuns In Myanmar Burma
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Author : Hiroko Kawanami
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-02-28
Renunciation And Empowerment Of Buddhist Nuns In Myanmar Burma written by Hiroko Kawanami and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-28 with Religion categories.
Myanmar-Burma has one of the largest concentrations of Buddhist nuns and monks in the world today. In Renunciation and Empowerment of Buddhist Nuns in Myanmar-Burma, Kawanami traces the nun's scholarly lineage in modern Myanmar history and examines their contemporary religious position in Myanmar’s social and political contexts. Although their religious status may appear ambiguous from a textual viewpoint, it is argued that their large presence is a clear indication as to the important functions Buddhist nuns perform in the monastic community. Sagaing Hill where the main research was conducted, occupies an important educational centre for Myanmar nuns in consolidating their scholarly lineage and spreading the network of dhamma teachers. The book examines transactions that take place in their everyday lives and reveals the essence of their religious lives that make Buddhist nuns an essential bridge between sangha and society.
Buddhist Nuns Monks And Other Worldly Matters
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Author : Gregory Schopen
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2014-07-31
Buddhist Nuns Monks And Other Worldly Matters written by Gregory Schopen and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-31 with Religion categories.
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India 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 Monks And Business Matters
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Author : Gregory Schopen
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Buddhist Monks And Business Matters written by Gregory Schopen and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Religion categories.
The second in a series of collected essays looking at Indian Buddhism.
The World Of Buddhism
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Author : Heinz Bechert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The World Of Buddhism written by Heinz Bechert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Photography categories.
Follows the fortunes of Buddhism through time and space, from the founding of the world's largest monastic Order in India 2500 years ago to contemporary America.
Buddhist Nuns
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Author : Mohan Wijeyaratna
language : en
Publisher: Buddhist Publication Society
Release Date : 2010-12-01
Buddhist Nuns written by Mohan Wijeyaratna and has been published by Buddhist Publication Society this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-01 with Religion categories.
The Community of Buddhist Nuns is one of the oldest women’s organizations in human history. In this book Dr. Wijayaratna explains how this community was started by the Buddha in the 5th century BCE, and how it developed gradually. To show the motivation and the way of life of these ordained women, the author uses the oldest texts of the Pali canon. Several chapters of this book discuss the position of Buddhist nuns in the field of the three famous monastic themes: poverty, chastity and obedience. This book describes in detail the structure of the organization of their Community, their day-to-day practices, and the virtues and mental discipline through which they strove to attain the sublime goal, Nibbana.
Brides Of The Buddha
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Author : Karen Muldoon-Hules
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2017-06-05
Brides Of The Buddha written by Karen Muldoon-Hules and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-05 with History categories.
For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study uses ten stories from the Avadānaśataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns’ hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.
Family Matters In Indian Buddhist Monasticisms
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Author : Shayne Clarke
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2013-12-31
Family Matters In Indian Buddhist Monasticisms written by Shayne Clarke and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-31 with Social Science categories.
Scholarly and popular consensus has painted a picture of Indian Buddhist monasticism in which monks and nuns severed all ties with their families when they left home for the religious life. In this view, monks and nuns remained celibate, and those who faltered in their “vows” of monastic celibacy were immediately and irrevocably expelled from the Buddhist Order. This romanticized image is based largely on the ascetic rhetoric of texts such as the Rhinoceros Horn Sutra. Through a study of Indian Buddhist law codes (vinaya), Shayne Clarke dehorns the rhinoceros, revealing that in their own legal narratives, far from renouncing familial ties, Indian Buddhist writers take for granted the fact that monks and nuns would remain in contact with their families. The vision of the monastic life that emerges from Clarke's close reading of monastic law codes challenges some of our most basic scholarly notions of what it meant to be a Buddhist monk or nun in India around the turn of the Common Era. Not only do we see thick narratives depicting monks and nuns continuing to interact and associate with their families, but some are described as leaving home for the religious life with their children, and some as married monastic couples. Clarke argues that renunciation with or as a family is tightly woven into the very fabric of Indian Buddhist renunciation and monasticisms. Surveying the still largely uncharted terrain of Indian Buddhist monastic law codes preserved in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese, Clarke provides a comprehensive, pan-Indian picture of Buddhist monastic attitudes toward family. Whereas scholars have often assumed that monastic Buddhism must be anti-familial, he demonstrates that these assumptions were clearly not shared by the authors/redactors of Indian Buddhist monastic law codes. In challenging us to reconsider some of our most cherished assumptions concerning Indian Buddhist monasticisms, he provides a basis to rethink later forms of Buddhist monasticism such as those found in Central Asia, Kaśmīr, Nepal, and Tibet not in terms of corruption and decline but of continuity and development of a monastic or renunciant ideal that we have yet to understand fully.
Being A Buddhist Nun
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Author : Kim Gutschow
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Being A Buddhist Nun written by Kim Gutschow and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Religion categories.
They may shave their heads, don simple robes, and renounce materialism and worldly desires. But the women seeking enlightenment in a Buddhist nunnery high in the folds of Himalayan Kashmir invariably find themselves subject to the tyrannies of subsistence, subordination, and sexuality. Ultimately, Buddhist monasticism reflects the very world it is supposed to renounce. Butter and barley prove to be as critical to monastic life as merit and meditation. Kim Gutschow lived for more than three years among these women, collecting their stories, observing their ways, studying their lives. Her book offers the first ethnography of Tibetan Buddhist society from the perspective of its nuns. Gutschow depicts a gender hierarchy where nuns serve and monks direct, where monks bless the fields and kitchens while nuns toil in them. Monasteries may retain historical endowments and significant political and social power, yet global flows of capitalism, tourism, and feminism have begun to erode the balance of power between monks and nuns. Despite the obstacles of being considered impure and inferior, nuns engage in everyday forms of resistance to pursue their ascetic and personal goals. A richly textured picture of the little known culture of a Buddhist nunnery, the book offers moving narratives of nuns struggling with the Buddhist discipline of detachment. Its analysis of the way in which gender and sexuality construct ritual and social power provides valuable insight into the relationship between women and religion in South Asia today.
Figments And Fragments Of Mahayana Buddhism In India
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Author : Gregory Schopen
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
Figments And Fragments Of Mahayana Buddhism In India written by Gregory Schopen and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with History categories.
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.