Living with the Dead as a Way of Life: A Materialist Historiographical Approach to Cemetery Asceticism in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms
Abstract: This study challenges the long-standing scholarly conception that ascetic practice was incompatible with the institutional imperatives of the Indian Buddhist monastery in the \"middle period.\" Drawing upon the rich narrative tradition in Indian Buddhist law codes (Vinaya), I emp...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
[2019]
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2019, Volume: 87, Issue: 3, Pages: 824-859 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tipiṭaka. Vinayapiṭaka
/ Buddhism
/ Asceticism
/ Dead person
/ Cemetery
/ Residency
/ Meditation
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
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