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...Richard B. Mather Chinese Buddhist Monasteries: Their Plan and Its Function as a Setting for Buddhist Monastic Life . By J. Prip-Moller . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 1967 . 396 pp. Table of Sketches, Table of Plates, Alphabetical Index, Table of Monasteries, Chinese...

... as “monastic landlordism,” namely that there is an individual, a landlord, who owns land and commands tenants. 5 Evers Hans-Dieter , “ Buddhistische Gesellschaftsordnung und buddhistischer Wohlfahrtsstaat ” (Buddhist Society and Buddhist Welfarestate), Moderns Welt , Volume IV , No. 3...

...Donald K. Swearer Buddhist Monastic Discipline: The Sanskrit Prātimokṣa Sūtras of the Mahāsāṃghikas and Mūlasarvāstivādins . By Charles S. Prebish . University Park and London : The Pennsylvania State University Press , 1975 . 156 PP. Notes, Appendix, Bibliography. $ 13.00. Copyright...

...Jiang Wu The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annotated Translation and Study of the Chanyuan qinggui . By Yifa. Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2002 . 408 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA...

...James Egge Attracting the Heart: Social Relations and the Aesthetics of Emotion in Sri Lankan Monastic Culture . By Jeffrey Samuels . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . xxx, 167 pp. $36.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011...

...Tom Conlan Hokkeji and the Reemergence of Female Monastic Orders in Premodern Japan . By Lori Meeks . Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press , 2010 . 408 pp. $50.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2011 2011 Lori Meeks has crafted an excellent book...

...Gareth Fisher [email protected] Lotus Blossoms and Purple Clouds: Monastic Buddhism in Post-Mao China . By Brian J. Nichols . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2022 . xiv, 274 pp. ISBN: 9780824889005 . © 2025 Association for Asian Studies 2025 546 THE JOURNAL...

...Diran Kavork Dohanian Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1976 1976 Sinhalese Monastic Architecture: The Vihāras of Anurādhapura . By Senake Bandaranayake . Leiden : E. J. Brill , 1974 . University of Amsterdam Studies in South Asian Culture, IV. xviii, 404 pp. Figures...

...T. Griffith Foulk The Zen Monastic Experience: Buddhist Practice in Contemporary Korea . By Robert E. Buswell, Jr . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1992 . xiii, 264 pp. $29.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 952 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... of monasticism” (p. 57) and useful in assessing “the impact of Tibetan monasticism on society” (p. 5). Chapter 1—and the entire book—treat chayik as a genre. Yet not all texts referred to by Jansen as “monastic guidelines” are chayik . Additional labels include sgrig yig (p. 59n13), dkar chag (p. 61n33...

... the relationship between masculinity and Buddhist monasticism. List of References Anālayo , Bhikkhu . 2017 . “ The Theravāda Vinaya and Bhikkhunī Ordination. ” In Rules of Engagement: Medieval Traditions of Buddhist Monastic Regulations , edited by Susan Andrews , Jinhua Chen , and Cuilan...

...Leon Hurvitz Early Buddhist Monachism . By Sukumar Dutt . New York : Asia Publishing House , 1960 . First published 1924. x, 172 . Bibliography, Index. $5.25 Early Monastic Buddhism . By Nalinaksha Dutt . Calcutta : Oriental Book Agency , 1960 . First published 1941. ii, 311...

... of the role of monastics in a Tibetan future. The first chapter introduces the revival of Geluk mass monasticism in northeastern Tibet, and the resurgence of the historical moral-economic relationship between lamas, monasteries, and communities. The focus is on monastic economy, and Caple argues from...

... Sklavenhaltergesellschaft?" published in 1963 in Archiv orientalni 31: 353-63- My answer to the question of the existence of the slave society was and remains negative. TlMOTEUS POKORA Prague The Segmentation of Monastic Fraternities in Sri Lanka May I offer a few comments on Steven Kemper's paper, "Reform and Segmentation...

...Carl Bielefeldt Five Mountains: The Rinzai Zen Monastic Institution in Medieval Japan . By Martin Collcutt . Cambridge : Harvard University Press (Harvard East Asian Monographs 85), 1981 . xxi, 399 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $20. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies...

...Charles F. Keyes Sangha and State in Burma: A Study of Monastic Sectarianism and Leadership . By E. Michael Mendelson , Edited By John P. Ferguson . Ithaca : Cornell University Press , 1975 . 400 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $19.50 Copyright © Association for Asian...

... been resolved since the early 1960s. 18 In monastic practice, for example, the three groups can be sorted out in principle by their appearance. Siyam monks cover only one shoulder with the robes and shave their eyebrows; Amarapura Ramanna monks cover both shoulders after the Mon fashion. Ramanna...

..., and especially Okinawa-ken. DOUGLAS H. MENDEL, JR. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee Unsui: A Diary of Zen Monastic Life. BY ESHIN NISHIMURA. Drawings by GIEI SATO. Edited and with an Introduction by BARDWELL L. SMITH. Honolulu: University Press of Hawaii, 1973. xxviii, 114 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Glossary...

... of the institutional history of monastic education in Laos and northern Thailand. The author rejects the characterization of the region as one in which the local populations were passive recipients of classical traditions. In discussing Laos, he demonstrates convincingly that neither colonialism nor communism...

...A. Thomas Kirsch Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman: A Study of Urban Monastic Organization in Central Thailand . By Jane Bunnag . Cambridge : University Press , 1973 . xii, 219 pp. Illustrations, Bibliography, Index. $16.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1974...