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Buddhist Monks and Business Matters: Still More Papers on Monastic Buddhism in India (Studies in the Buddhist Tradition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Gregory Schopen
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 496539
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 444
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1
ISBN: 0824827740
Dewey Decimal Number: 294.36570954
EAN: 9780824827748
ASIN: 0824827740
Publication Date: January 1, 2004
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Buddhist Monks and Business Matters is the second in a series of collected essays by one of the today's most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. In these articles, all save one published in various places from 1994 through 2001, 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.
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More digging up of bones and throwing of stones April 21, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
A brilliant collection of essays. Excellently selected, well edited and full of ideas which demand attention. Perhaps the net effect can best be summed up as scraping away of some old and spreading out smoothly of fresh clean gomaya - the result is a whole new set of answers, questions and provocations. Most of us will have copies of some of the papers, but almost certainly not all and certainly not in such a handy format. This book is an essential item on any buddhologist's bookshelf (come to think of it perhaps Greg can send his niece - see the nice anecdote in his introduction - a copy so she will learn what a good buddhologist does)
Down to Business. April 6, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is every bit as excellent as Schopen's prior publication. He has an incredible knack for taking what you'd think are boring, dusty details and breathing life into them in order to really explore what Buddhism was in India. This guy never assumes anything, and you never come away from his books with the same view of Buddhism as you had before. And he writes with clarity and verve, which is so painfully rare in the scholarly world today.
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