Buddhist Monks and Business Matters : Still

Buddhist Monks and Business Matters is the second in a series of collected essays by one of the today's most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles, all save one published in various places from 1994 through 2001, Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.

Gregory Schopen is professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles.

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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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