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The Monastery Rules : Buddhist Monastic Organization in Pre-Modern Tibet / Berthe Jansen.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: South Asia Across the DisciplinesPublisher: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (298 p.)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520969537
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Documents That Establish the Rules: The Genre of Chayik -- 2. Historical and Doctrinal Frameworks of Monastic Organization in Tibet -- 3. Entrance to the Monastery -- 4. Monastic Organization -- 5. Monastic Economy and Policy -- 6. Relations with the Laity: The Roles of the Monastery in Society -- 7. Justice and the Judicial Role of the Monastery -- 8. Maintaining (the) Order: Conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- Sources -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: UC Press eBook-Package 2018Summary: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bca' yig. The first study of its kind to examine the genre in detail, the book contains an exploration of its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, while also containing rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Jansen argues that the monastic institutions' influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Documents That Establish the Rules: The Genre of Chayik -- 2. Historical and Doctrinal Frameworks of Monastic Organization in Tibet -- 3. Entrance to the Monastery -- 4. Monastic Organization -- 5. Monastic Economy and Policy -- 6. Relations with the Laity: The Roles of the Monastery in Society -- 7. Justice and the Judicial Role of the Monastery -- 8. Maintaining (the) Order: Conclusions -- Appendix -- Notes -- Sources -- Index

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Monastery Rules discusses the position of the monasteries in pre-1950s Tibetan Buddhist societies and how that position was informed by the far-reaching relationship of monastic Buddhism with Tibetan society, economy, law, and culture. Jansen focuses her study on monastic guidelines, or bca' yig. The first study of its kind to examine the genre in detail, the book contains an exploration of its parallels in other Buddhist cultures, its connection to the Vinaya, and its value as socio-historical source-material. The guidelines are witness to certain socio-economic changes, while also containing rules that aim to change the monastery in order to preserve it. Jansen argues that the monastic institutions' influence on society was maintained not merely due to prevailing power-relations, but also because of certain deep-rooted Buddhist beliefs.

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