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Managing Monks: Administrators and Administrative Roles in Indian Buddhist Monasticism |
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Silk, Jonathan A.
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| Date | 2008.10 |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
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| Publisher Url |
http://www.oup.com/
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| Location | New York, US [紐約州, 美國] |
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| Series | South Asia research |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | 心靈=Spiritual; 比丘=Buddhist Monk=Bhiksu=Bhikkhu; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 道場生活=寺院生活=Monasticism=Monastic Life=Community Life; 靜坐=Meditation; 禪定=Concentration=Dhyana; 禪修=Meditation |
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| Abstract | The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study-to engage in religious practice. The institutional structure which makes this concentration on spiritual cultivation possible is the monastery. But as a bureaucratic institution, the monastery requires administrators to organize and manage its functions, to prepare quiet spots for meditation, arrange audiences for sermons, or simply to make sure food is available, and rooms and bedding provided. The valuations placed on such organizational roles were, however, a subject of considerable controversy among Indian Buddhist writers, with some considering them significantly less praiseworthy than meditative concentration or teaching and study, while others more highly appreciated their importance. Managing Monks, as the first major study of the administrative offices of Indian Buddhist monasticism and of those who hold them, explores literary sources, inscriptions and other materials in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan and Chinese in order to explore this tension and paint a picture of the internal workings of the Buddhist monastic institution in India, highlighting the ambivalent and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward administrators revealed in various sources. |
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| Table of contents | Technical Details and Abbreviations xiii
1. Introduction 3
2. The Tension Between Service and Practice 17
3. Vaiyaprtyakara 39
4. Navakarmika 75
5. Varika and Specialization of Duties 101
6. Karmadana 127
7. Viharapala 137
8. Momodi and avasika 147
9. Classified Lists of Administrators 159
10. Misbehaving Managers 177
11. Chinese Terminology, and Additional Indian Terms 199
12. The Administered 203
13. Concluding Considerations 207
Supplementary Note 213
Textual Materials 219
Bibliography 289
Index 323 |
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| ISBN | 9780195326840; 0195326849 |
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| Hits | 1072 |
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| Created date | 2008.07.10 |
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| Modified date | 2016.07.01 |
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