Buddhist Monks and Business Matters: Still More Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India (Studies in the Buddhist Traditions)

This Is The Second Work In A Series Of Collected Essays Looking At Indian Buddhism. Gregory Schopen Has Contributed To A Major Shift In The Way That Indian Buddhism Is Perceived, Understood, And Studied. The Good Monk And His Money In A Buddhist Monasticism Of The Period -- Art, Beauty, And The Business Of Running A Buddhist Monastery In Early Northwest India -- Doing Business For The Lord: Lending On Interest And Written Loan Contracts In The -- Deaths, Funerals, And The Division Of Property In A Monastic Code -- Dead Monks And Bad Debts: Some Provisions Of A Buddhist Monastic Inheritance Law -- Monastic Law Meets The Real World: A Monk's Continuing Right To Inherit Family Property In Classical India -- The Monastic Ownership Of Servants Or Slaves: Local And Legal Factors In The Redactional Histories Of Two Vinayas -- The Lay Ownership Of Monasteries And The Role Of The Monk In Monasticism -- Marking Time In Buddhist Monasteries: On Calendars, Clocks, And Some Liturgical Practices -- Ritual Rights And Bones Of Contention: More On Monastic Funerals And Relics In The The Suppression Of Nuns And The Ritual Murder Of Their Special Dead In Two Buddhist Monastic Codes -- Immigrant Monks And The Proto-historical Dead: The Buddhist Occupation Of Early Burial Sites In India -- What's In A Name : The Religious Functions Of The Early Donative Inscriptions -- If You Can't Remember, How To Make It Up: Some Monastic Rules For Redacting Canonical Texts. Gregory Schopen. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. This is the second in a series of collected essays by one of todays most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. (Publication of a third collection is planned in early 2005.) 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.