Buddhist monastic life :
Wijayaratna, Môhan.
Buddhist monastic life : according to the texts of the Theravāda tradition / Môhan Wijayaratna. - Cambridge [England] : New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. - xxiv, 190 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxi) and index.
This 1991 book provides a brief yet detailed account of the ideal way of life prescribed for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Pali texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism. The author describes the way in which the Buddha's disciples institutionalized his teachings about such things as food, dress, money, chastity, solitude and discipleship.
0521364280 0521367085 (pbk.)
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.
Theravāda Buddhism.
294.3657 WIJ
Buddhist monastic life : according to the texts of the Theravāda tradition / Môhan Wijayaratna. - Cambridge [England] : New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. - xxiv, 190 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxi) and index.
This 1991 book provides a brief yet detailed account of the ideal way of life prescribed for Buddhist monks and nuns in the Pali texts of the Theravada school of Buddhism. The author describes the way in which the Buddha's disciples institutionalized his teachings about such things as food, dress, money, chastity, solitude and discipleship.
0521364280 0521367085 (pbk.)
Buddhist monasticism and religious orders.
Theravāda Buddhism.
294.3657 WIJ