Buddhist Monasticism in East Asia (eBook, PDF)

Places of Practice
Redaktion: Benn, James A.; Robson, James; Meeks, Lori

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134009916
• Artikelnr.: 42980526

Autorenporträt

James A. Benn is Associate Professor of Buddhism and East Asian Religions at McMaster University. His main area of research is Buddhism and Taoism in Medieval China. Lori Meeks is Assistant Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Southern California. She has published extensively on the roles of women as consumers and practitioners of Buddhism in Japan during the Heian and Kamakura periods. James Robson is Associate Professor of Chinese Buddhism at Harvard University. He studies Buddhism and Taoism in medieval China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Neither Too Far, Nor Too Near: The Historical and Cultural
Contexts of Buddhist Monasteries in Medieval China and Japan James Robson
1. Taking a Meal at a Lay Supporter's Residence: The Evolution of the
Practice in Chinese Vinaya Commentaries Koichi Shinohara 2. Monastic Spaces
and Sacred Traces: Facets of Chinese Buddhist Monastic Records James Robson
3. Pictorial Program in the Making of Monastic Space: From Jing'aisi of
Luoyang to Cave 217 at Dunhuang Eugene Wang 4. The Monastery Cat in
Cross-cultural Perspective: Cat Poems of the Zen Masters T.H. Barrett 5.
The Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan: The Insider's View William
Bodiford 6. Vows for the Masses: Eison and the Popular Expansion of
Precept-Conferral Ceremonies in Premodern Japan Lori Meeks 7. Koen and the
"Consecrated Ordination" Within Japanese Tendai Paul Groner