[PDF.14mf] Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India (Studies in the Buddhist Traditions)

Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks: Collected Papers on the Archaeology, Epigraphy, and Texts of Monastic Buddhism in India (Studies in the Buddhist Traditions)

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 | #1393514 in Books |  University of Hawaii Press |  1997-04-01 |  1997-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.67 x6.14l,1.07 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||50 of 54 people found the following review helpful.| COMPREHENDING WHAT IT IS TO COMPREHEND "BUDDHISM"|By Roger H. Fisher|No doubt you have seen the recent ads for a cheap little cloth bracelet decorated only with the letters "WWBD." They stand for "What Would the Buddha Do?" It's really a good question. So good that for ages it has stalked me everywhere I go.
Haunted by missing answers, but skeptical of the huge num| |No serious scholar of Buddhist studies can afford to ignore this argumentative, challenging, and provocative set of essays.... In each case, Schopen's arguments are refreshing, honest, often brilliant, and always cogently presented.-- "Journal of Religion

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 an...

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