Bones, stones, and Buddhist monks : collected papers on the archaeology, epigraphy, and texts of monastic Buddhism in India

✍ Scribed by Schopen, Gregory

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 315
• Series: Studies in the Buddhist traditions.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

From the Preface "The present volume provides an essential foundation for a social history of Indian Buddhist monasticism. Challenging the popular stereotype that represented the accumulation of merit as the domain of the layperson while monks concerned themselves with more sophisticated realms of doctrine and meditation, Professor Schopen problematizes many assumptions about the lay-monastic distinction by demonstrating that monks and nuns, both the scholastic elites and the less learned, participated actively in a wide range of ritual practices and institutions that have heretofore been judged 'popular,' from the accumulation and transfer of merit; to the care of deceased relatives;.... Taken together, the studies contained in this volume represent the basis for a new historiography of Buddhism, not only for their critique of many of the idees recues of Buddhist Studies but for the compelling connections they draw between apparently disparate details." --Donald S. Lopez, Jr.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
I. Archaeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of Indian Buddhism
II. Two Problems in the History of Indian Buddhism: The Layman/Monk Distinction and the Doctrines of the Transference of Merit
III. Filial Piety and the Monk in the Practice of Indian Buddhism: A Question of "Sinicization" Viewed from the Other Side
IV. The Ritual Obligations and Donor Roles of Monks in the Pali * Vinaya
V. The Stupa Cult and the Extant Pali Vinaya
VI. Monks and the Relic Cult in the Mahaparinibbana-sutta: An Old Misunderstanding in Regard to Monastic Buddhism
VII. Burial Ad Sanctos and the Physical Presence of the Buddha in Early Indian Buddhism: A Study in the Archaeology of Religions
VIII. On the Buddha and His Bones: The Conception of a Relic in the Inscriptions from Nagarjunikonda
IX. An Old Inscription from Amaravati and the Cult of the Local Monastic Dead in Indian Buddhist Monasteries
X. On Avoiding Ghosts and Social Censure: Monastic Funerals in the Mulasarvasti vadavinaya *
XI. On Monks
XII. The Buddha as an Owner of Property and Permanent Resident in Medieval Indian Monasteries
Index of Archaeological Sites and Inscriptions
Index of Texts
Index of Words
Index of Subjects (Missing)

here Missing Index of Sujects:
Index of Subjects
Amitābha, 39-40, 53 n. 89, 53 n. 90
darśan, 116-117, 137 n. 9, 138 n. 10
de la Vallée Poussin, L., 8, 101, 149, 205, 259, 277
dhāraḥs, 120-122, 142 n. 31
Dharmaṃāstra, 214, 219
disposal of the dead, 8-9, 72, 92-93, 96 n. 19, 105, 115ff, 194 n. 6, 204ff
donative formulae, 5, 6, 7, 35-36, 37-38, 39, 40-41, 42, 51 n. 82, 51 n. 83, 52 n. 85, 52 n. 86, 52 n. 87, 53 n. 88, 54 n. 95, 55 n. 98, 57-63, 69, 77, 115, 167, 170-171, 172, 246
I-tsing, 120, 225 n. 19, 232 n. 62, 234 n. 63, 236 n. 71, 277, 286 n. 70, 286 n. 72
juristic personality of the Buddha, 272-274
Lamotte, Ét., 5-7, 18 n. 29, 24, 25, 27, 41-42, 144, 168, 239, 252
Mahāyāna, 31, 32, 36, 37ff, 52 n. 83, 54 n. 94, 81, 85, 96 n. 18, 99, 129, 148, 150, 188, 202 n. 97, 238, 250, 256 n. 38, 256 n. 41, 256 n. 44, 258, 259, 261, 286 n. 70, 288 n. 87
manuscript traditions, 1, 16 n. 5, 25, 91, 96 n. 23, 136 n. 6, 203 n. 111
monastic titles, 24, 30-31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 44 n. 5, 44 n. 7, 45 n. 8, 49 n. 42, 49 n. 45, 54 n. 95, 62, 63, 65, 77, 78, 93, 107, 117, 138 n. 11, 139 n. 12, 139 n. 13, 159, 165, 169, 174, 175, 176, 186-188, 189, 190, 191, 202 n. 103, 210, 211, 212, 243, 244, 245, 247, 248, 249, 250, 268, 269, 283 n. 39
Nirvāṇa in inscriptions, 36, 39, 64
nuns, 248-250
Oldenberg, H., 30, 185, 204, 248, 250
personal property owned by monks, 3-4
religious acts undertaken for the dead, 35, 36, 37, 38, 59, 61-62, 63
Rhys Davids, T.W., 8, 100, 185, 204
"schools" in inscriptions, 26, 37ff, 51 n. 83, 52 n. 85, 80, 93, 159, 167-168, 195 n. 25, 245
stūpas / relics, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 76, 77, 96 n. 19, 100, 103-104, 106, 108, 115, 199ff, 126-128, 128-131, 148-164, 160, 165ff, 179-180, 197 n. 38, 198 n. 50, 218, 233 n. 63, 272, 273, 276-277
transfer of merit, 6-7, 19 n. 31, 36ff, 54 n. 95, 78-79, 213, 221, 229 n. 42, 246