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, unders...(展开全部)

Indian edition. This work includes two books in one volume, Bones, Stones and Buddhist Monks and Buddhist Monks and Business Matters. In Part One: Bones, Stones and Buddhist Monks, Schopen provides an essential foundation for a social history of Indian Buddhist monasticism, challenging the popular stereotype that represents the accumulation of merit as once the domain of the la...(展开全部)