A Pure Mind in a Clean Body

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  • A Pure Mind in a Clean Body Book Detail

  • Author : Ann Heirman
  • Release Date : 2012
  • Publisher : Academia PressScientific Pub
  • Genre : History
  • Pages : 194
  • ISBN 13 : 9789038220147
  • File Size : 31,31 MB
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A Pure Mind in a Clean Body by Ann Heirman PDF Summary

Book Description: "Buddhist monasteries, in both Ancient India and China, have played a crucial social role, for religious as well as for lay people. They rightfully attract the attention of many scholars, discussing historical backgrounds, institutional networks, or influential maters. Still, some aspects of monastic life have not yet received the attention they deserve. This book therefore aims to study some of the most essential, but often overlooked, issues of Buddhist life: namely, practices and objects of bodily care. For monastic authors, bodily care primarily involves bathing, washing, cleaning, shaving and triming the nails, activities of everyday life that are performed by lay people and moastics alike. In this sense, they are all highly recognizable and, while structuring monastic life, equally provide a potential bridge between two worlds that are constantly interacting with each other: monastic people and their lay followers. Bodily practices might by viewed as relatiely simple and elementary, but it is exactly through their triviality that they give us a clear insight into the structure and development of Buddhist monasteries. Over time, Buddhist monks and nuns have, through their painstaking effort into regulating bodily care, defined the identity of Buddhist saòmgha, overtly displaying it to the laity"--P. [4] of cover.

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