On the contrary, the cultures that arose in these three vast areas might better be thought of as alternative developments that occurred within a greater Austroasiatic civilization, sometimes called the Asia of the monsoons. The Dhammakaya group has been much more successful at gathering a large popular following but has also become very controversial because of its distinctive meditation practices and questions concerning its care of financial contributions from its followers. As long as monks and nuns preserved the basic teachings and social behavior patterns, Buddhism could be translated into any language or culture. There appears to be a high degree of monastic involvement with lay society, and the provision of special amenities for monks who prefer a strictly contemplative life, as in Sri Lanka and Thailand, has been well defined in practice. Montreal: Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies; Toronto: Museum for Textiles, 1994. 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Buddhists believe that the best way to follow the path to enlightenment is to live a disciplined lifestyle, one conducive to generating awareness of one's mental states and the causally produced nature of all elements of existence. 188p. 995p. The sequence, chronology, specific philosophical positions, and importance of the specific points are uncertain, but nonetheless the matters involved monastic life. Huxley, Andrew. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 20, no. Southeast Asian archaeology 1994: proceedings of the 5th international conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Paris, 24th-28th October 1994. Indeed, in twentieth-century Amdo, Northeast Tibet (modern Gansu province), the greater Labrang Monastery community supported women's monasteries even without full ordination. In return, monks provided spiritual guidance to the devotees for material gifts. 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Encyclopedia of Religion. The preeminence of Theravada Buddhism continued throughout the area during the remainder of the premodern period. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1981. For example, Burmese monastic leaders produced, implemented, and preserved a fully developed lay legal system based on Buddhist law. 56-88 Hamilton Asia BL50 .T72, Saibaba, V.V.S. I thank the organizers and members of the audience for their feedback. The practice of religiously legitimizing kingship continued in Tibet and Southeast Asia, notably in the Qing dynasty (16441911) during the reign of the Qianlong emperor in the late eighteenth century. In the monastic literature, whenever the Buddha prohibited an action and instituted a rule, he did so to please his disciples. (Berkeley Buddhist studies series, 2.) 21-30 September 1995. International Seminar for UNESCO Integral Study of the Silk Roads: Roads of Dialogue. 297-306 Hamilton Asia BQ4570 .S6 S65 1999, Brown, Robert L. 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Educational standards and facilities were not as developed as in men's monasteries, but women built and maintained strong traditions of meditation, ritual, and community solidarity. 808-956-7203 (Circulation), Library Digital Collections Disclaimer and Copyright information, https://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/sea, The House and the World: Architecture of Asia, equal opportunity/affirmative action institution. 363p. Daoism, an ancient Chinese religion (with later Buddhist influences) that inspired some emulation in Japan and Korea, holds a middling position with respect to monastic ventures, lying somewhere between the powerfully antimonastic Confucian schools that always represented the official culture and mainstream of sophisticated Chinese opinion and the radically monastic Buddhists. A style below, and copy the text for your bibliography material gifts, a... 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