 | Buddhist Monks and Business Matters: Still More Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India Subjects: Monasticism and religious orders Buddhist -- India; Buddhism -- Economic aspects -- India; Monasteries Buddhist -- Economic aspects -- India; Right of property -- India; This is the second in a series of collected essays by one of today's most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. (Publication of a third collection is planned in early 2005.) In these articles, all save one published in various places from 1994 through 2001, 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. Schopen Gregory : Gregory Schopen is Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University and Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to his international appointments, Schopen has served on the faculties of Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University of Texas, Austin. His publications include Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks (1997), Buddhist Monks and Business Matters (2004), and Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India (2005), all published by the University of Hawai'i Press. |
