Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India
ISBN: 9780824873929
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Monastic and religious life (Buddhism) -- India; Buddhist nuns -- India; Buddhist monks -- India;

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.


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.

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