Buddhism and Law Conference

September 20

Petra – Additional Vinaya from Inscriptions in Sri Lanka

- Vihāra-katikāvata – by kings and monastics
- Remunerations of individual persons…
- Jetavanārāma-sanskrit inscription – Sena VIII8th – in the 9th century
- It is actually the Abhayagiri – inscription
- Sanskrit – beginning not known, could be secular authority or monastery…
- The four nikāyas – mahasanghika, mahavihara, abhayagiriya, jetavanaya…
- Harmonious living of monks
- Śāstra – what it refers to is not clear
- Wages to be given to monks and novices
- Sahāya - ?
- Vinaya – Root Texts – non-offence clause – property,
- nissaggiya 6 for monks
- Gregory Schopen – Monastics were the donors of monasteries ---
- Monks from India – possibly were residents in that monastery?
- Monks and the family relations – monks can feed mother and father, not others…
- Some monks came from abroad, whatever happened in Lanka, beyond the control of
Lanka

Monastery Rules – Lankan Style

- Contemporary Buddhist monastic legal system
- Anuvijik-sabha meetings
- Uparimāna-anuvijjika
- Vinaya-pitaka – regulating monks – vinaya-core of Buddhist teachings
- Normative imagination – empirically not always the same
- Monks interact with variety of sources ---
- Popular Life of Buddhist Vinaya –
o Katikāvatas in the 19th and 20th century …
o Pragmatic functional documents
Fumi Yao
- MSV – mention of sutras,
- An example of the lost sutrapitaka
- Materials on the humour
- Pāyāttikā – 50
- - concealing another monk’s grave offence
- humour in the narrative stories in the MSV
- Shayne Clarke – intentionally humourous
- Gregory Schopen – comparing the humour figure with the Vidūṣaka
- Incongruity ---

Tomas Larsson
 - Royal Succession and Religious Purification in Contemporary Thailand
- Vinaya of Public Opinion…

Richard – Bhutan – translation, transmission, transformation

- Education –

Vesna Wallace – the 13th and 14th Dalai Lama’s Regulations For Mongolian Monasteries
- 13th Dalai Lama (1876-1933)
- vinaya – as a foundation of Buddhism –
- maintenance of internal discipline
- sain noyon khan tögs - 1878-1919
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14th Dalai Lama’s Text on Vinaya

- monk’s entering into moral choice
- having few desires and remaining content
- gathering for the assembly and allocating in the rows of seats
- how to engage in effort to study – very important for monasteries to consider the needs
of the people of the modern world, precious teachings regard scriptures and reasoning,
not merely doing pūjas
- how to take examination
- Monastic Dress
- some resistance in Mongolia when Dalai lama emphasize science
- monasticism – to preserve the tradition,

Cuilan lu
- clergy and state – monastic law and state law – how are they reconciled
- Tang Law and Buddhism – dynastic centered approach
- Legal theory and legal practice
- Xuecheng --- creation of Buddhist robots, cartoons, attracting highly educated people to
become monks, Head of the Buddhist association china
- Accused of three offences – sexual acts with nuns, administrative misconduct, financial
embezzlement ---
- Where to sue him according to legal theory and practice?
- State court, monastic court, neither …
- Mahīśāsaka Vinaya – the nuns complied with this Vinaya – reporting Xuecheng
- Regulations on the national management of Chinese Buddhist monasteries
Historical Context – 369-1911 hybrid court – impacted the jurisdiction, monastic, state, hbrid
court…
- Light and grave offences – grave in state court, light in hybrid court…
- Trial strategy –
- internal, external
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- Buddhism –
- LEGAL PLURALISM – in Islam as well.
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Mark Nathan – punishment from Buddhist legal perspectives
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Shayne Clarke – short survey of the Tibetan dunhuang manuscripts containing Prātimokxsa
Texts
- Paul Pelliot, Aurel Stein–
- Cave Library sealed after 1200CE
- Nearly 3000 manuscripts
- Lhan lDan kar ma
- ‘Phang thang ma
- important for early medieval and early Tibetan Buddhism, Dunhuang Buddhism
- no systematic study of the Vinaya texts
- cataloguing the Dunhuang texts
- Okitomi Katsumi (student of Hirakawa Akira)
o Only article in 22 pages on Tibetan Dunhuang Vinaya texts, 1 page to prātimokṣa
- Aurel catalogue in French, Chinese
- Stein catalogue
- Nishimoto is comparison of the Pāli Vinaya rules with Chinese
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Annie – Buddha spoke to the sea-monster Pelliot 2207

- Vinaya-Vibhaṅga
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Gerjan – Prātimokṣa-sūtra-smaraṇa-pada
- two emic ways of understanding prātimo