Managing monks : administrators and administrative roles in indian Buddhist monasticism

Managing monks : administrators and administrative roles in indian Buddhist monasticism / Jonathan A. Silk.

The paradigmatic Buddhist is the monk. It is well known that ideally Buddhist monks are expected to meditate and study -- to engage in religious practice. The institutional structure which makes this concentration on spiritual cultivation possible is the monastery. But as a bureaucratic institution,...

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Main Author: Silk, Jonathan A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Series:South Asia research (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders > India > Government > History.
Buddhism > India > Doctrines > History.
Buddhist literature > India > History and criticism.
RELIGION > Buddhism > General.
Buddhism > Doctrines
Buddhist literature
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders > Government
India
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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