On Incompetent Monks and Able Urbane Nuns in a Buddhist Monastic Code |
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Authors: | Schopen Gregory |
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Institution: | 1.Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1540, USA ; |
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Abstract: | Most modern scholars seem to assume that Buddhist monks in early India had a good knowledge of Buddhist doctrine and at least
of basic Buddhist texts. But the compilers of the vinayas or monastic codes seem not to have shared this assumption. The examples presented here are drawn primarily from one vinaya, and show that the compilers put in place a whole series of rules to deal with situations in which monks were startlingly
ignorant of both doctrine and text. One of these examples is particularly interesting for what it suggests about the linguistic
sophistication of nuns, and another because it presents a case in which a nun is required to fill an important liturgical
role in public and in the presence of monks. |
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