This is the second in a series of collected essays by one of today’s most distinguished scholars of Indian Buddhism. (Publication of a third collection is planned in early 2005.) In these articles, all save one published in various places from 1994 through 2001, Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.

Gregory Schopen is professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles.

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I. The Good Monk and His Money in a Buddhist Monasticism of the Mahāyāna Period 1
II. Art, Beauty, and the Business of Running a Buddhist Monastery in Early Northwest India 19
III. Doing Business for the Lord: Lending on Interest and Written Loan Contracts in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya 45
IV. Deaths, Funerals, and the Division of Property in a Monastic Code 91
V. Dead Monks and Bad Debts: Some Provisions of a Buddhist Monastic Inheritance Law 122
VI. Monastic Law Meets the Real World: A Monk's Continuing Right to Inherit Family Property in Classical India 170
VII. The Monastic Ownership of Servants or Slaves: Local and Legal Factors in the Redactional History of Two Vinayas 193
VIII. The Lay Ownership of Monasteries and the Role of the Monk in Mūlasarvāstivādin Monasticism 219