Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia write by Garima Kaushik. This book was released on 2016-02-12. Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia
Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia write by Garima Kaushik. This book was released on 2016-02-12. Women and Monastic Buddhism in Early South Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Women in Early Indian Buddhism
Women in Early Indian Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women in Early Indian Buddhism write by Alice Collett. This book was released on 2014. Women in Early Indian Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
South Asian Buddhism
South Asian Buddhism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook South Asian Buddhism write by Stephen C. Berkwitz. This book was released on 2012-12-06. South Asian Buddhism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Buddhist Monastic Life
Buddhist Monastic Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Buddhist Monastic Life write by Môhan Wijayaratna. This book was released on 1990-11-30. Buddhist Monastic Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
