Gregory Schopen is professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles.
Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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The Good Monk and His Money in a Buddhist Monasticism of ``the Mahayana Period''
1
(18)
Art, Beauty, and the Business of Running a Buddhist Monastery in Early Northwest India
19
(26)
Doing Business for the Lord: Lending on Interest and Written Loan Contracts in the Mulasarvastivada-vinaya
45
(46)
Deaths, Funerals, and the Division of Property in a Monastic Code
91
(31)
Dead Monks and Bad Debts: Some Provisions of a Buddhist Monastic Inheritance Law
122
(48)
Monastic Law Meets the Real World: A Monk's Continuing Right to Inherit Family Property in Classical India
170
(23)
The Monastic Ownership of Servants or Slaves: Local and Legal Factors in the Redactional History of Two Vinayas
193
(26)
The Lay Ownership of Monasteries and the Role of the Monk in Mulasarvastivadin Monasticism
219
(41)
Marking Time in Buddhist Monasteries: On Calendars, Clocks, and Some Liturgical Practices
260
(25)
Ritual Rights and Bones of Contention: More on Monastic Funerals and Relics in the Mulasarvastivada-vinaya
285
(44)
The Suppression of Nuns and the Ritual Murder of Their Special Dead in Two Buddhist Monastic Codes
329
(31)
Immigrant Monks and the Protohistorical Dead: The Buddhist Occupation of Early Burial Sites in India
360
(22)
What's in a Name: The Religious Function of the Early Donative Inscriptions
382
(13)
If You Can't Remember, How to Make It Up: Some Monastic Rules for Redacting Canonical Texts
395
(14)
Index of Archaeological Sites of Texts
409
(2)
Index of Texts
411
(4)
Index of Subjects
415
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