Women And Monastic Buddhism In Early South Asia

Author : Garima Kaushik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317329381

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Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia by Garima Kaushik Pdf

This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category—thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse—this monograph examines their sustained role in the larger context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms their agency. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members, etc. within Buddhism. The volume also investigates the individual experiences of the members, and their equations and relationships at different levels—with the Samgha at large, with their own respective Bhikşu or Bhikşunī Sangha, with the laity, and with members of the same gender (both lay and monastic). It rereads, reconfigures and reassesses historical data in order to arrive at a new understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which it developed and flourished. Bringing together archaeological, epigraphic, art historical, literary as well as ethnographic data, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Buddhism, gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, and South Asian studies.

Author : Garima Kaushik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317329398

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Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia by Garima Kaushik Pdf

This book uses gender as a framework to offer unique insights into the socio-cultural foundations of Buddhism. Moving away from dominant discourses that discuss women as a single monolithic, homogenous category—thus rendering them invisible within the broader religious discourse—this monograph examines their sustained role in the larger context of South Asian Buddhism and reaffirms their agency. It highlights the multiple roles played by women as patrons, practitioners, lay and monastic members, etc. within Buddhism. The volume also investigates the individual experiences of the members, and their equations and relationships at different levels—with the Samgha at large, with their own respective Bhikşu or Bhikşunī Sangha, with the laity, and with members of the same gender (both lay and monastic). It rereads, reconfigures and reassesses historical data in order to arrive at a new understanding of Buddhism and the social matrix within which it developed and flourished. Bringing together archaeological, epigraphic, art historical, literary as well as ethnographic data, this volume will be of interest to researchers and scholars of Buddhism, gender studies, ancient Indian history, religion, and South Asian studies.

Author : Alice Collett
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780199326044

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Women in Early Indian Buddhism by Alice Collett Pdf

This volume is a broad-ranging comparative study with translations of texts, sections of texts and textual fragments that are concerned with women in early Indian Buddhism, including study of texts in Gandhari, Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Tibetan and Sinhala.

Author : Stephen C. Berkwitz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135689834

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South Asian Buddhism by Stephen C. Berkwitz Pdf

South Asian Buddhism presents a comprehensive historical survey of the full range of Buddhist traditions throughout South Asia from the beginnings of the religion up to the present. Starting with narratives on the Buddha’s life and foundational teachings from ancient India, the book proceeds to discuss the rise of Buddhist monastic organizations and texts among the early Mainstream Buddhist schools. It considers the origins and development of Mahayana Buddhism in South Asia, surveys the development of Buddhist Tantra in South Asia and outlines developments in Buddhism as found in Sri Lanka and Nepal following the decline of the religion in India. Berkwitz also importantly considers the effects of colonialism and modernity on the revivals of Buddhism across South Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. South Asian Buddhism offers a broad, yet detailed perspective on the history, culture, and thought of the various Buddhist traditions that developed in South Asia. Incorporating findings from the latest research on Buddhist texts and culture, this work provides a critical, historically based survey of South Asian Buddhism that will be useful for students, scholars, and general readers.

Author : Môhan Wijayaratna
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521367085

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Buddhist Monastic Life by Môhan Wijayaratna Pdf

This 1991 book provides a brief yet detailed account of the ideal way of life prescribed for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Pali texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism. The author describes the way in which the Buddha's disciples institutionalized his teachings about such things as food, dress, money, chastity, solitude and discipleship. This tradition represents an ideal of religious life that has been followed in South and Southeast Asia for over two thousand years. In previous writing on the early period of Buddhist monasticism, scholars have usually tried to give an historical account of the evolution of the monastic order, and so have seen the extant Vinaya texts as coming from distinct historical periods. This book takes a different approach by presenting a synchronic account, which allows the author to show that sources are in fact predominantly consistent and coherent.

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015035020943

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The Winds of Change by Himanshu Prabha Ray Pdf

On maritime trade and seafaring in the early historical period with reference to support provided by Buddhist monastic establishments during that period.

Author : Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351394321

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Archaeology and Buddhism in South Asia by Himanshu Prabha Ray Pdf

This book traces the archaeological trajectory of the expansion of Buddhism and its regional variations in South Asia. Focusing on the multireligious context of the subcontinent in the first millennium BCE, the volume breaks from conventional studies that pose Buddhism as a counter to the Vedic tradition to understanding the religion more integrally in terms of dhamma (teachings of the Buddha), dāna (practice of cultivating generosity) and the engagement with the written word. The work underlines that relic and image worship were important features in the spread of Buddhism in the region and were instrumental in bringing the monastics and the laity together. Further, the author examines the significance of the histories of monastic complexes (viharas, stupas, caityas) and also religious travel and pilgrimage that provided connections across the subcontinent and the seas. An interdisciplinary study, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars in South Asian studies, religion, especially Buddhist studies, history and archaeology.

Author : Mohan Wijeyaratna
Publisher : Buddhist Publication Society
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789552403453

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Buddhist Nuns by Mohan Wijeyaratna Pdf

The Community of Buddhist Nuns is one of the oldest women’s organizations in human history. In this book Dr. Wijayaratna explains how this community was started by the Buddha in the 5th century BCE, and how it developed gradually. To show the motivation and the way of life of these ordained women, the author uses the oldest texts of the Pali canon. Several chapters of this book discuss the position of Buddhist nuns in the field of the three famous monastic themes: poverty, chastity and obedience. This book describes in detail the structure of the organization of their Community, their day-to-day practices, and the virtues and mental discipline through which they strove to attain the sublime goal, Nibbana.

Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Buddhism
ISBN : 0415332338

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Buddhism: Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia by Paul Williams Pdf

This eight-volume set brings together seminal papers in Buddhist studies from a vast range of academic disciplines published over the last forty years. With a new introduction by the editor, this collection is a unique and unrivalled research resource for both student and scholar. Coverage includes: - Buddhist origins; early history of Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia - early Buddhist Schools and Doctrinal History; Theravada Doctrine - the Origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism; some Mahayana religious topics - Abhidharma and Madhyamaka - Yogacara, the Epistemological tradition, and Tathagatagarbha - Tantric Buddhism (Including China and Japan); Buddhism in Nepal and Tibet - Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia, and - Buddhism in China, East Asia, and Japan.

Author : Karen Muldoon-Hules
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498511469

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Brides of the Buddha by Karen Muldoon-Hules Pdf

For young women in early South Asia, marriage was probably the most important event in their lives, as it largely determined their socioeconomic and religious future. Yet there has been little in the way of systematic examinations of the evidence on marriage customs among Buddhists of this time, and our understanding of the lives of early Buddhist women is still quite limited. This study uses ten stories from the Avadānaśataka, the collection of Buddhist narratives compiled from the second to fifth centuries CE, to examine the social landscape of early India. The author analyzes marital customs and the development of nuns’ hagiographies, while revealing regional variations of Buddhism in South Asia during this period.

Author : Karma Lekshe Tsomo
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781479803415

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Women in Buddhist Traditions by Karma Lekshe Tsomo Pdf

A new history of Buddhism that highlights the insights and experiences of women from diverse communities and traditions around the world Buddhist traditions have developed over a period of twenty-five centuries in Asia, and recent decades have seen an unprecedented spread of Buddhism globally. From India to Japan, Sri Lanka to Russia, Buddhist traditions around the world have their own rich and diverse histories, cultures, religious lives, and roles for women. Wherever Buddhism has taken root, it has interacted with indigenous cultures and existing religious traditions. These traditions have inevitably influenced the ways in which Buddhist ideas and practices have been understood and adapted. Tracing the branches and fruits of these culturally specific transmissions and adaptations is as challenging as it is fascinating. Women in Buddhist Traditions chronicles pivotal moments in the story of Buddhist women, from the beginning of Buddhist history until today. The book highlights the unique contributions of Buddhist women from a variety of backgrounds and the strategies they have developed to challenge patriarchy in the process of creating an enlightened society. Women in Buddhist Traditions offers a groundbreaking and insightful introduction to the lives of Buddhist women worldwide.

Author : Nalinaksha Dutt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Buddha (The concept)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004500943

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Early Monastic Buddhism by Nalinaksha Dutt Pdf

Author : James A. Benn,Lori Meeks,James Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134009916

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Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia by James A. Benn,Lori Meeks,James Robson Pdf

Taking into account the diverse religious, historical, social and cultural contexts within which they have existed, this book provides a multifaceted examination of Buddhist monasteries. Written by specialists in the study of monasteries and monastic practice in East Asia, it is a timely contribution on this aspect of Buddhist religious practice.

Author : Gregory Schopen
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824838812

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Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters by Gregory Schopen Pdf

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.

Author : Peter C. Bisschop,Elizabeth A. Cecil
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110674262

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Primary Sources and Asian Pasts by Peter C. Bisschop,Elizabeth A. Cecil Pdf

This conference volume unites a wide range of scholars working in the fields of history, archaeology, religion, art, and philology in an effort to explore new perspectives and methods in the study of primary sources from premodern South and Southeast Asia. The contributions engage with primary sources (including texts, images, material artefacts, monuments, as well as archaeological sites and landscapes) and draw needed attention to highly adaptable, innovative, and dynamic modes of cultural production within traditional idioms. The volume works to develop categories of historical analysis that cross disciplinary boundaries and represent a wide variety of methodological concerns. By revisiting premodern sources, Asia Beyond Boundaries also addresses critical issues of temporality and periodization that attend established categories in Asian Studies, such as the “Classical Age” or the “Gupta Period”. This volume represents the culmination of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project Asia Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State, a research consortium of the British Museum, the British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, in partnership with Leiden University.