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Filial Piety and the Monk in the Practice of Indian Buddhism: a Question of 'Sinicization' Viewed From the Other Side

Schopen, Gregory·1984·T'oung Pao
DOI 10.1163/156853284x00044
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Shizutani Masao in his catalog of Indian Buddhist epigraphical material, the final version of which was published in Kyoto in 1979, lists more than two thousand separate inscriptions.1 These inscriptions come, of course, from all periods and virtually every part of India and have been thoroughly mined by historians, but notunfortunately by Buddhist scholars. Buddhist scholars, in fact, have shown very little interest in this material, especially those scholars writing on the development of Buddhist doctrine-this, in spite of the fact that this material contains considerable information in regard to such important matters as the conception of the Buddha or Buddhas, the conception or conceptions of merit and religious acts, and the nature of the actual, as opposed to the ideal 'goal' of religious activity among practicing Indian Buddhists. In fact this epigraphical material has as I have said elsewhereat least two distinct advantages. First of all, much of it predates by several centuries our earliest actually datable literary sources. Secondly, it tells us what a fairly large number of Indian Buddhists actually did, as opposed to what according to our literary sourcesthey might or should have done.2 But in addition to these two advantages there is a third: this material, in a considerable number of cases, tells us what the individuals themselves-whether laymen or monks-hoped to accomplish by those religious acts which they chose to record. The failure of Buddhist scholars to take this epigraphical material into account has generated a number of distortions both within the realm of Indian studies and beyond. One particular example will concern us here.

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Authors
Schopen, G.
Corresponding author
Schopen, Gregory
Venue
T'oung Pao
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Published
1984
Volume
70
Issue
1
Pages
110-126
ISSN
  • 0082-5433 (ISSN-L)
  • 1568-5322
DOI
10.1163/156853284x00044
OpenAlex
W1994861747
Semantic Scholar
f0f9d963c1a0b84ba4d6f26db8f89ff0b256786d
Cited by
29
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0
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 2
FWCI
12.17
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
T oung Pao (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Chinese history and philosophy
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
Keywords
filial piety, Indian Buddhism, Buddhist monks, Sinicization, Buddhist epigraphy, Buddhist doctrine, Buddhist historiography

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