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Merit-Making or Financial Fraud? Litigating Buddhist Nuns in Early 10th-Century Dunhuang |
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Liu, Cuilan
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Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies=JIABS
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| Volume | v.41 |
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| Date | 2018 |
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| Pages | 169 - 208 |
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| Publisher | Peeters Publishers |
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http://www.peeters-leuven.be/
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| Location | Leuven, Belgium [魯汶, 比利時] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | This article re-examines records of a financial dispute between two Buddhist nuns preserved in a Chinese manuscript (P. 4810v) from the Dunhuang cave 17 to better understand the legal aspects of Buddhist practices in Dunhuang in the ninth and tenth century. It challenges the prevailing scholarly assumption that this dispute was an internal conflict between two nuns from the same nunnery, and posits that it was an inter-institutional conflict between individual nuns and administrators in two different monastic institutions. This new interpretation significantly changes our understanding of how the Buddhist monastic community in Dunhuang engaged with the local legal system. It reveals that, despite their access to locally circulating texts of Indic Buddhist canon law prohibiting ordained Buddhists from initiating lawsuits in the courtroom, monks and nuns in Dunhuang were legally active and not reluctant to seek legal intervention in response to infringements on their rights. |
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| Table of contents | The Manuscript 171
The Business of Recitation 175
The Donation Office 180
Who Were the Nuns? 182
The Dispute 191
Tang Law on Economic Crime 195
Conclusion 200
Abbreviations 205
References 205 |
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| ISSN | 0193600X (P); 25070347 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.2143/JIABS.41.0.3285742 |
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| Created date | 2021.03.14 |
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| Modified date | 2021.03.15 |
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