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Bad Gifts, Community Standards, and the Disciplining of Theravāda Monks |
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| 作者 |
Borchert, Thomas (著)
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| 出處題名 |
Journal of Contemporary Religion
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| 卷期 | v.35 n.1 |
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| 出版日期 | 2020.01.17 |
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| 頁次 | 53 - 70 |
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| 出版者 | Routledge |
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| 出版者網址 |
https://www.routledge.com/
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| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
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| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
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| 附註項 | Thomas Borchert is a Professor of Religion at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA. His research interests focus on Buddhism and politics, monastic education, and the dynamics of citizenship and monasticism in contemporary Asia, particularly China, Thailand, and Singapore. He is the author Educating Monks: Minority Buddhism on China’s Southwest Border (2017) and the editor of Theravada Buddhism in Colonial Contexts (2018). CORRESPONDENCE: Department of Religion, University of Vermont, 481 Main Street, Burlington, VT 05405, USA. |
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| 關鍵詞 | Discipline; Theravāda Buddhism; gifts; dāna; monks; lay Buddhists |
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| 摘要 | The act of giving is among the most fundamental acts within the Buddhist world, particularly in the Theravāda communities of Southeast Asia. In many of these communities, lay followers give food and other dāna (merit-making gifts), providing monastics with the ‘requisites’ that they need to survive. Yet there is relatively little discussion within Buddhist or scholarly communities about what should be given, with formulaic lists representing the majority of discussions about these gifts. However, sometimes, the gifts given to monastics are not always appropriate, even bad. What to do in those cases is not always clear. In this article, I explore the ways in which monks in Thailand and Southwest China think about gifts that are not good. What becomes clear is that, despite the prevailing view that discipline is a universal process based on the vinaya (disciplinary code of Buddhism), monks have different views about what constitutes a ‘bad gift’ and what to do about it. I argue that paying attention to bad gifts allows us to see that lay communities have significant voice—although this is often implicit rather than explicit—about what constitutes ‘proper’ monastic behavior. |
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| ISSN | 13537903 (P); 14699419 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1080/13537903.2020.1695805 |
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| 點閱次數 | 185 |
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| 建檔日期 | 2023.06.28 |
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| 更新日期 | 2023.06.30 |
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