TY - BOOK ID - 82956160 TI - Buddhist monastic life : according to the texts of the Theravāda tradition AU - Wijayaratna, Môhan AU - Grangier, Claude AU - Collins, Steven PY - 1990 SN - 0521364280 0521367085 0511527500 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Buddhist monasticism and religious orders KW - Theravāda Buddhism KW - 294.3*916 KW - 294.3*916 Theravadaboeddhisme: Sthaviravada; Santrantika; Mahisasako; Vinaya--(religieuze groeperingen) KW - Theravadaboeddhisme: Sthaviravada; Santrantika; Mahisasako; Vinaya--(religieuze groeperingen) KW - Pali Buddhism KW - Southern Buddhism KW - Buddhism KW - Buddhist sects KW - Hinayana Buddhism KW - Monasticism and religious orders, Buddhist KW - Monasticism and religious orders, Lamaist KW - Buddhist monasteries KW - Buddhist sanghas KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Religion KW - Buddhist monasticism and religious orders. KW - Theravāda Buddhism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:82956160 AB - This 1991 book provides a brief yet detailed account of the ideal way of life prescribed for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Pali texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism. The author describes the way in which the Buddha's disciples institutionalized his teachings about such things as food, dress, money, chastity, solitude and discipleship. This tradition represents an ideal of religious life that has been followed in South and Southeast Asia for over two thousand years. In previous writing on the early period of Buddhist monasticism, scholars have usually tried to give an historical account of the evolution of the monastic order, and so have seen the extant Vinaya texts as coming from distinct historical periods. This book takes a different approach by presenting a synchronic account, which allows the author to show that sources are in fact predominantly consistent and coherent. ER -