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STUDIES ON BUDDHIST MONASTIC CULTURES

Studies on Buddhist Monastic Cultures   is based on an online lecture series organised by the
former Indology Department of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg  Germany and the
Japanese Vih¿ra Project  supported by the Japanese Society of the Promotion of Science in 2021
and 2022.  Of the three contributions included in this volume  two address the terminology for
Buddhist monasteries and nunneries in the early and middle phases of Buddhism in India and Sri
Lanka. Petra Kieffer-Pülz investigates the terms   vih¿ra       ¿r¿ma     and   ¿v¿sa   in the
Buddhist P¿li literature from its origins to around the 5th 6th centuries CE  focusing on the
terminological shifts between the early and later texts and showing that many elements of
monastic complexes were not yet mentioned in the earliest writings. Annette Schmiedchen
examines the terms   vihara       mah¿vih¿ra     and   vih¿ramä¿ala   in Sanskrit epigraphy
from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages in various Indian regions  especially Gujarat 
Bengal and Andhra Pradesh  and explains the implications of these terminological differences.
The third contribution by Shin'ichir¿ Hori focuses on the evidence for Buddhist monasticism in
the phase of its decline in India. Based on dated colophons of Sanskrit manuscripts in Old
Bengali script  Hori reveals that despite the widespread disappearance of Buddhism in India by
the 13th century CE  Buddhist institutions still persisted in rural areas in Bihar until the
mid-15th century CE.

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