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oapen-20.500.12657-334932022-04-26T12:23:48Z A Pure Mind in a Clean Body Heirman, Ann Torck, Mathieu india bodily care buddhism china Chinese language History of China Monastery Monk Sangha Vinaya bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FK Indian sub-continent::1FKA India bic Book Industry Communication::1 Geographical Qualifiers::1F Asia::1FP East Asia, Far East::1FPC China bic Book Industry Communication::2 Language qualifiers::2A Indo-European languages::2AB English bic Book Industry Communication::3 Time periods qualifiers::3F c 500 CE to c 1000 CE bic Book Industry Communication::5 Interest age & special interest qualifiers::5A Interest age / level::5AX For emergent readers (adult) bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRE Buddhism::HREP Buddhist life & practice 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 masters. 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 trimming the nails, activities of everyday life that are performed by lay people and monastics 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 be viewed as relatively 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 the Buddhist saṃgha, overtly displaying it to the laity. 2014-02-09 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:48:39Z 2020-04-01T14:48:39Z 2012 book 466590 OCN: 908083587 9789038220147 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33493 eng application/pdf n/a 466590.pdf Academia Press 10.26530/OAPEN_466590 10.26530/OAPEN_466590 76cb5309-2a30-44e7-bc8c-7892cd1fa38c 9789038220147 194 open access
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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 masters. 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 trimming the nails, activities of everyday life that are performed by lay people and monastics 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 be viewed as relatively 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 the Buddhist saṃgha, overtly displaying it to the laity.
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