Title: The Bonze's Begging Bowl: Eating Practices in Buddhist Monasteries of Medieval India and China
Abstract:I PROPOSE THIS EVENING to make a few mundane observations about eating practices, especially as they were carried on in the early Buddhist monasteries of India, and later in China. As a point of depar...I PROPOSE THIS EVENING to make a few mundane observations about eating practices, especially as they were carried on in the early Buddhist monasteries of India, and later in China. As a point of departure I will cluster my remarks around three topics which are the subject of separate essays (or, rather, religious tracts) by the late fifth-century poet Shen Yiieha(441513). The first topic is the single premeridian meal, discussed in the essay, On Keeping the tradition of the Monks' Midday Meal (Shu seng ('hulg-.shih lunb).l The second is begging for food, and is the underlying theme of the essay On Keeping the Tradition of the Maigre Feast (Shu ventg she-hui lun).2 The third is vegetarianism, the real subject of the essay On Ultimate Compassion (Chiu-ching t-'u-pwei lund ).3Read More
Publication Year: 1981
Publication Date: 1981-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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