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 Buddh
The text is Schopen's fourth collection of scholarly essays discussing monastic Buddhism in India. Essay titles include, The Urban Buddhist Nun and a Protective Rite for Children in Early North India,
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, understood, and studied.
Schopen (East Asian languages and cultures, U. of California-Los Angeles) provides a second collection of essays, all but one of the 14 published in various places between 1994 and 2001. Among the top