Local Buddhist Monastic Agreements among the (Mula)sarvastivadins

Authors

  • Masanori Shono University of Munich

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.33779

Keywords:

(Mūla)sarvāstivāda Vinaya, Vinayasūtra, local monastic community, agreements (kriyākāra-)

Abstract

Recently, there have been an increasing number of studies on the Buddhist monastic community as a whole and on individual Buddhist monks and nuns in Vinaya literature. However, we do not know much about how a local Buddhist monastic community was administered. In order to consider just an aspect of the administration in a local monastic community, I will in this paper investigate descriptions of agreements (Skt kriyakara-) that local monastic communities or local Buddhist monks conclude in Vinaya texts belonging to the (Mula)sarvastivadins.

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Shono, M. (2017). Local Buddhist Monastic Agreements among the (Mula)sarvastivadins. Buddhist Studies Review, 34(1), 53-66. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.33779