Managing monks
Subtitle: administrators and administrative roles in indian Buddhist monasticism
By: Jonathan A. Silk.
Series: South Asia research
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; chi; pli; san; tib
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9780195326840
Subjects: Buddhist monasticism and religious orders -- India -- Government -- History; Buddhism -- India -- Doctrines -- History; Buddhist literature -- India -- History and criticism
Description: Looked at in one light, monastic administrators are at the top of the monastic hierarchy. From another perspective, however they are divorced from the main purpose of monastic life. In this book, Jonathan Silk examines the way in which this question was debated in the formative years of Indian Buddhism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-321) and index.