574 pages, 6 x 9
Paperback
Release Date:31 Jul 2014
ISBN:9780824838812
Hardcover
Release Date:31 Jul 2014
ISBN:9780824838805
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters
Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India
By Gregory Schopen; Series edited by Luis O. Gomez
University of Hawaii Press
Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters: Recent Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India is the fourth in a series of collected essays by one of today’s most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles 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.
Witty and always provocative. . . . Schopen has the uncanny knack for making seemingly bland rock inscriptions and short passages from understudied ancient Buddhist manuscripts speak volumes about the lived world of Indian Buddhism.
Gregory Schopen has been the most influential scholar in Buddhist Studies in the last quarter century, and rightly so.
Gregory Schopen is undeniably one of the most important contributors to the evolving understanding of Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism. His challenging and rigorous scholarship is accomplished not only by means of canonical textual analysis, but by studies of art, inscriptions, and other material culture as well.
