Between normativity and material emptiness: Indian Buddhist monasteries and the Chinese Buddhist travelogues

Deeg, Max ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5703-2976 2022. Between normativity and material emptiness: Indian Buddhist monasteries and the Chinese Buddhist travelogues. Singh, Abhishek, Shimada, Akira and Morrissey, Nicolas, eds. On the Regional Development of Early Medieval Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia, Vol. 1. RINDAS Series of Working Papers, vol. 34. Kyoto: The Center for South Asian Studies, Ryukoku University, pp. 89-129.

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Abstract

This paper addresses the odd fact that the “description” of Indian Buddhist monasteries in Chinese texts are rather concentrating on the communal and/or individual aspects of monastic life than on the institution of the monastery and its materiality. These records are therefore, quite naturally, closer to the idealized image of monastic life and the normative practical side as given in the different Vinayas than to the material reality as this is, partly at least, represented through archaeological evidence. Although not restricting itself to it, the paper will discuss this issue with a focus on specific Vinaya-passages and on the work of the Chinese Buddhist traveller monks Xuanzang and Yijing.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BQ Buddhism C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CC Archaeology D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Publisher:	The Center for South Asian Studies, Ryukoku University
ISBN:	9784904945759
Last Modified:	24 Jan 2023 11:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/155851

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