2. Justin McDaniel, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
摘要
This paper presents an ethnographic account of Buddhist 'nuns' involved in the teaching of Pali language and Abhidhamma in contemporary Thailand. It also reflects on both the emic-Buddhist (Pali and modern vernacular) and etic-interpretative (English-language) vocabularies which have been used to describe these women and their social role(s) and status(es). The aims of the paper are to go beyond the Weberian vocabulary usually used to describe what we will call 'professionally celibate Buddhist women', to escape from the ubiquitous emphasis on the issue of re-establising the Nuns' Order (bhikkhunῑ-s) in the modern world in scholarship dealing with such women, and to encourage further ethnography and further civilizational interpretation of gender and asceticism.
目次
Abstract 1373 Introduction 1374 Lay and monastic statuses 1376 Some etic categories 1380 The history of the Order of Nuns 1382 Mae chi in Thailand 1384 Case studies: mae chi teaching Pali 1387 Appendix 1: terms for non-monastic ascetics in Pali texts 1400 Appendix 2: vernacular terms for modern professionally celibate women - 'Third Status (es)' 1402
