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The idea of the monk in medieval China: Asceticism, thaumaturgy, and scholarship in the "Biographies of Eminent Monks".

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The idea of the monk in medieval China: Asceticism, thaumaturgy, and scholarship in the "Biographies of Eminent Monks"./
Author:	Kieschnick, John Henry.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1995,
Description:	298 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1398.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International56-04A.
Subject:	Religious history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9525854

The idea of the monk in medieval China: Asceticism, thaumaturgy, and scholarship in the "Biographies of Eminent Monks".
Kieschnick, John Henry.

The idea of the monk in medieval China: Asceticism, thaumaturgy, and scholarship in the "Biographies of Eminent Monks". - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1995 - 298 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 56-04, Section: A, page: 1398.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 1995.

This dissertation examines biographies of monks in China from the first century to the tenth, focusing on three collections of biographies known as the Biographies of Eminent Monks. As sacred biography, these accounts contain much that is fabulous and historically inaccurate. In the past, scholars have concentrated on winnowing out these fabulous elements in an attempt to uncover a factual core. I have chosen instead to set aside the question of the historicity of the accounts, and accept them as representations of the image of the monk, of what monks were supposed to be.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Religious history.

The idea of the monk in medieval China: Asceticism, thaumaturgy, and scholarship in the "Biographies of Eminent Monks".
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520 $a This dissertation examines biographies of monks in China from the first century to the tenth, focusing on three collections of biographies known as the Biographies of Eminent Monks. As sacred biography, these accounts contain much that is fabulous and historically inaccurate. In the past, scholars have concentrated on winnowing out these fabulous elements in an attempt to uncover a factual core. I have chosen instead to set aside the question of the historicity of the accounts, and accept them as representations of the image of the monk, of what monks were supposed to be.
520 $a The dissertation is divided into three chapters. In the first chapter, I look at monastic attitudes towards asceticism, drawing on the biographies to describe and analyze the forms Buddhist asceticism took in China, including attitudes towards sex, food, clothing, and self-mutilation. In this chapter I also address the curious accounts of anti-ascetics: monks who drink wine and eat meat.
520 $a In the second chapter, I discuss thaumaturgy in the biographies, particularly the belief in supernormal powers, prophecy, spells and miracles. In this chapter I also address the attitude of the state towards these practices.
520 $a In the third chapter, I examine monastic attitudes towards scholarship, including a discussion of education in the monasteries, monastic attitudes towards debate, and the constraints on intellectual exchange within the monastic community. In the final part of this chapter I attempt to account for the rise of Chan hagiography, a new style of Buddhist hagiography which brought new concerns to the hagiographic enterprise and eventually eclipsed the format established in the Biographies of Eminent Monks.
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