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253p. Monasteries and monks had other sources of income, depending on the wealth and circumstances of their support communities. This work includes much data on the context of monasticism in Pla India. Music and movement in Vietnamese Buddhism [in special issue 'Body and ritual in Buddhist musical culture'; with preface by PD Green, 9-16] The World of Music. In South and Southeast Asia, Buddhist monks were and still are teachers to the peoplenot only in religious matters but also in the realm of basic educationparticularly in Myanmar. The Buddhist order was founded and based on metaphysical principles, but its functions were based on the truth of conventional operations in the world. Buddhist authorities were soon faced with the problems of retreat conduct, and they needed an effective method to propagate the teachings during the retreat time, when monks and nuns did not wander. As a result, monasteries grew in number and in strength in India, in the far northwest as far as the Greek colonies, to the north in the Himalayas, and in Southeast Asia. Founded in 1926 in opposition to French colonial rule, they maintained a military organization and their own army regulars from 1943 to the mid-1950s. 2v. 47-83 Hamilton Asia DS338 .F78 2001, Ensink, Jacob (1978), Siva-Buddhism in Java and Bali, In: Bechert, Heinz, ed. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press, 1997. [CDATA[ Hamilton Asia BQ410. It is notably the case of Buddhism which had a considerable influence on the early trade routes. The number of these councils is, however, uncertain, and it is probable that there were many more such meetings than are recorded in the standard histories. During the next two centuries, Theravada reforms penetrated as far as Cambodia and Laos. Huxley, Andrew. Ling, Trevor, ed. Taylor, James (1998), The changing politico-religious landscape in modernizing Thailand : Buddhist monasticism, the state, and emergent religious hybridities, In Oh Myung-Seok, Kim Hyung-Jun (eds.) 165-180 Hamilton Asia NX577 .A78 1991, Lancaster, Lewis R. (1982), Literary sources for a study of Barabudur, In: Gomez, Luis; Woodward, Hiram W. Jr., eds. For example, modern scholarship gives evidence of well-established and well-endowed nunneries in India in the Gupta dynasty, though these went into decline in the following centuries. The Shailendra dynasty, which ruled over the Malay Peninsula and a large section of Indonesia from the 7th century to the 9th century, promoted the Mahayana and Tantric forms of Buddhism. The Dhammakaya group has been much more successful at gathering a large popular following but has also become very controversial because of its distinctive meditation practices and questions concerning its care of financial contributions from its followers. 374p. Wijayaratna, Mohan. Accordingly, Buddhist monks and monasteries accepted donations of cash, land, and material of all kinds, and they sometimes became rich and powerful. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995. The exercise of meditation, learning, ethical conduct, and progress on the path to liberation were thought to be best managed in solitude, or at least in single-gender communities that did not engage society in traditionally accepted, lay-oriented ways. 1998 v.2, 113-127 Hamilton Asia DS523 .E89 1994, Lobo, Wibke (1997), The figure of Hevajra and Tantric Buddhism In: Jessup, Helen Ibbitson; Zephir, Thierry, eds. A Survey of Legal Literature in Pli-land." 566p. Pub., 33-42 Hamilton Asia BQ266 .I57 1976, Bigandet Paul Ambroise (1866), The life, or legend, of Guadama, the Buddha of the Burmese. Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies 20, no. Delhi: B.R. In the latter region, Mahayana Buddhism prevailed and bore fruits like the construction of the Borobudur and other monuments in Java during the Sailendra dynasty, but its impact was less durable than on the mainland. (1918), The cannibal king in the 'Kedah Annals' Journal of the Straits Branch, Royal Asiatic Society (Singapore) 79 (Sep) 47-48, Cheu, Hock Tong (1995) ,Spiritual perspectives on the protection of the environment with special reference to Chinese Buddhist ethics [in Malaysia], Jurnal Antropologi dan Sosiologi (Kuala Lumpur) 22 129-144, Farrer, R.J. (1933), A Buddhistic purification ceremony, Journal of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society (Kuala Lumpur) 11, pt.2 (Dec) 261-263, Ismail, Mohamed Yusof (1987), Buddhism and ethnicity: the case of the Siamese Kelantan, Sojourn: Social Issues in Southeast Asia (Singapore) 2, no.2 (Aug) 231-254, Ling, Trevor O. 995p. Hull, England: Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Hull, 1998. 2019Encyclopedia.com | All rights reserved. There appears to be a high degree of monastic involvement with lay society, and the provision of special amenities for monks who prefer a strictly contemplative life, as in Sri Lanka and Thailand, has been well defined in practice. of Religious Affairs, Hamilton Asia BQ6160.B93 S37 1986, Sao Htun Hmat Win (1985), Basic principles of Burmese buddhism /Rangoon, Burma : Dept. of Anthropology, 1990. Honolulu : University of Hawai`i Press, Hamilton Asia DS556.8 .M387 2004, Minh Chi, et al. (1982), Barabudur: a Buddhist mystery in stone, In: Gomez, Luis; Woodward, Hiram W. Jr., eds. The Chinese form of Mahayana later spread to Korea, Japan and Vietnam. Religion and politics became so closely related in this period that kings who sponsored building projects often took on nearly divine status. Of the slightly less than 100 monastic and quasi-monastic orders in South Asia, well over half developed locally or regionally. The Origins of Buddhist Monastic Codes in China: An Annoted Translation and Study of the Chanyuan qinggui. Scholarship has shown that the monastery and individual monks were involved in a broad range of economic activities and that some monasteries and monks became wealthy. 309-315 Hamilton Asia BQ266 .B833 1989, Gosling, David (2001), Religion and ecology in India and southeast Asia / with a foreword by Ninian Smart. (Berkeley Buddhist studies series, 2.) of Buddhist Studies, University of Delhi, Hamilton Asia BQ7160 .T49 1995, Schecter, Jerrold L. (1967), The new face of Buddha; Buddhism and political power in southeast Asia New York, Coward-McCann Hamilton & Hamilton Asia BL1459.S7 S3, Somboon Suksamran (1993) Buddhism, political authority, and legitimacy in Thailand and Cambodia, In: Ling, Trevor, ed. Paris Hamilton Asia BL1445.B95 R33 1936, Reynolds, Frank E.; Clifford, Regina T. (1980), Sangha, society and the struggle for national integration: Burma and Thailand, In: Reynolds, Frank E. and Theodore M. Ludwig, eds. Phnom Penh: The Buddhist Institute, 1998. (Berkeley Buddhist studies series, 2.) It is known that Buddhist kingdoms had appeared in this region by the early centuries of the 1st millennium ce. 1997 71-78 Hamilton Asia NB1015 .S36 1997, Pou, Saveros (1998), Ancient Cambodia's epigraphy: the concept of merit-making and merit-offering In: Manguin, Pierre-Yves, ed. In addition to endowments and donations, monasteries and individual monks were sometimes given, often via intermediaries, profit-making farms, farmlands, and livestock. Throughout the 20th century, British colonial policy . Rather loosely joined together, Vietnamese Buddhists managed to preserve their traditions through the period of French colonial rule in the 19th and 20th centuries. Buddhist trends in Southeast Asia. 2v. The religious traditions of Asia. The art and culture of South-East Asia. The practice of religiously legitimizing kingship continued in Tibet and Southeast Asia, notably in the Qing dynasty (16441911) during the reign of the Qianlong emperor in the late eighteenth century. A third major Zen school was established in the 11th century by the Chinese monk Thao Durong. https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/monasticism-buddhist-monasticism, "Monasticism: Buddhist Monasticism London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2002. Buddhism spread from India both east toward Southeast Asia and to the northwest along Silk Road trade routes. 566p. The main point is that, as Buddhist monasticism developed, there were disruptive forces in the community. Lamotte, tienne. The corpus of Indian Buddhist ritual practices and philosophies grew as the order spread and encountered different environments, languages, and social structures. The development of trade amongst merchants of the region along the Silk Roads resulted in a further expansion of Buddhism towards eastern Asian lands, especially in Thailand and Indonesia regions; where excavations displayed the interactions of these lands with Buddhist institutions linked to trading groups. 252p. Buddhism in South-east Asia : mainly based on epigraphic sources / Calcutta : Atisha Memorial Pub. In many countries, moreover, women's ordination lineages did not survive. In the first years of Buddhism, like their Upaniad-motivated brethren, Buddha's followers were strictly eremitic, following an extreme ascetic lifestyle. of plates, *BURMA*BURMA: JOURNAL ARTICLESAye Kyaw (1984) The Sangha organization in nineteenth century Burma and Thailand Journal of the Siam Society (Bangkok) 72: 166-196, Bechert, Heinz (1989), The recent attempt at a reform of the Buddhist Sangha in Burma and its implications, Internationales Asienforum = International Quarterly for Asian Studies (Munchen) 20, nos.3-4 (Nov) 303-323, Becka, Jan (1990) The ideological aspects of Buddhist revival in Burma (1948-1962) Archiv Orientalni (Prague) 58, no.4 337-353, Becka, Jan (1991) The role of Buddhism as a factor of Burmese national identity in the period of British rule in Burma (1886-1948) Archiv Orientalni (Prague) 59, no.4 389-405, Brohm, J (1963), Buddhism and animism in a Burmese village, Journal of Asian Studies, 22: 155-167, Ciochon, R L, J James (1992). Sculpture of Angkor and ancient Cambodia: millenium of glory. Munster: Lit, 1994. Buddhism in early 21st-century Southeast Asia is often described as Theravada Buddhism, in contrast to Mahayana Buddhism found farther to the north and east. The Hindu and Buddhist Tantric groups (practicing occult, sometimes sexual, meditative techniques) represent esoteric countermonasticism in India, though these practices have been accepted fully in certain Tibetan Buddhist hierarchies. 149-152 Hamilton BQ4055 .C64 1983, Keyes, Charles F. (1977), The golden peninsula : culture and adaptation in mainland Southeast Asia /; under the editorship of John Middleton New York : Macmillan, Hamilton GN635.A75 K48 1977, Keynes, Charles F. and E. Valentine Naniel (1983) Karma: an anthropological inquiry, University of California at Berkeley, Hamilton & Hamilton Asia BL2015.K3 K36 1983King, Winston L. (1993), Theravada in Southeast Asia In: Takeuchi Yoshinori. The clergy was divided between those who were highborn and Sinicized and those in the lower ranks who often were active in peasant uprisings. In Tang China (618907); Buddhism was persecuted, powerful Buddhist monasteries were secularized in Meiji Japan (18681912); and monasteries were targeted in Tibet in the modern period under Chinese rule. 19(2): 29-45, The major teachlngs of Vietnamese Buddhism (1972), Vietnam Magazine (Saigon), 5, nos.1-2 (Jan-Feb) 11-15, The, Hung (1979), Thien Buddhist school, Vietnamese Studies (Hanoi) no.56 : 30-56, Thich Thien Chau (1990), Bioethics as seen by Buddhists, Vietnamese Studies (Hanoi) no.25 : 83-102, Thich Thien Chau (1993), Prominent figures of Vietnamese Buddhism, Vietnamese Studies (Hanoi) no.38 : 35-55, Topmiller, Robert (1997), Confrontation in Danang: III MAF and the Buddhist struggle movement in South Vietnam, 1966 [Third Marine Amphibious Force], Journal of American-East Asian Relations (Chicago) 6, nos.2-3 (Sum-Fall) 207-234, Tran Thi Bang Thanh (1993), The two Buddhist literary tendencies of Vietnam's Middle Ages, Vietnamese Studies (Hanoi) no.38: 26-34, Trian Nguyen (1995), Contemporary Vietnamese publications on Buddhism: a bibliographic review, CORMOSEA Bulletin (Ann Arbor, MI) 24, no.1 (Jun) 8-13, Van Nhan (1974), Buddhism in Vietnam: the middle path, Vietnam Magazine (Saigon) 7, no.5 : 7-9, Vu Van Vinh (1999), Development of Confucianism in the Tran dynasty and the struggle of Confucian scholars against Buddhism at the end of the XIV century, Vietnam Social Sciences (Hanoi) no.2 (70) : 55-60, VIETNAM: BOOKS, OR BOOK CHAPTERSAnonymous (2001), In: Buddhism in Vietnam Ahir, D.C., ed. 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In modern Tibet and in parts of Southeast Asia, for example, there are no unbroken lineages of full ordination from nun to nun, and nuns are able to take only a brief list of vows. window.__mirage2 = {petok:"n0vrUsBciEQYLYPsPe62bNWEQIwXjzV.aAZyNTZpcwg-86400-0"}; 74-82 Hamilton Asia G156.5.H47 H475 1999, Mantra, Ida Bagoes (1991), The cult of Siva-Buddha, In: Lokesh Chandra, ed. Vegetarianism et saintete dans le bouddhisme du Threavada: pour une lecture des sources anciennes a la lumiere de la realite contemporaine [English and Spanish summaries] [French] Archives de sciences sociales des religions. Southeast Asia was in the Indian sphere of cultural influence from 290 BCE to the 15th century CE, when Hindu-Buddhist influences were incorporated into local political systems. Priesthood, article on Buddhist Priesthood; Sagha, overview article. This and other writings by Schopen are authoritative studies on social, economic, and doctrinal issues in Indian Buddhist monasticism. 277p. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 2001. 173-194 Hamilton Asia BQ6343.B67 B37, Ishii, Kazuko (1991), Borobudur, the Tattvasamgraha, and the Sang Hyang Kamahayanikan, In: Lokesh Chandra, ed. Tantrism, Daoism, and Confucianism also filtered into Vietnam at this time. 2v. The world of Buddhism: Buddhist monks and nuns in society and culture. The complex of religious beliefs and philosophical ideas that has developed out of the teachings of the Buddha (Sanskrit, "the Enli, Laity Hamilton Main BL60 .A7Arts of Asia (Hong Kong) Hamilton Main N 8 .A772Asia (New York) ,Hamilton Asia DS1 .A4712Asia Journal of Theology (Singapore) Hamilton Asia BR1 .E27Asia Quarterly (Brussels) Hamilton Asia DS1 .A464Asian culture quarterly. 154-170 Hamilton Asia BQ4690.M3 M34 1988, Thien Tam, Thich (1991), Buddhism of wisdom and faith: Pure Land principles and practice, : Sepulveda, Calif.: International Buddhist Monastic Institute, 1991 340 p. Hamilton Asia, BQ8515.6 .T5 1991, Topmiller, Robert J. The main point is that, as Buddhist monasticism developed, there were disruptive forces in the community. 2 . After the first meeting on the occasion of Buddha's death, there were councils at Vail and later at Paliputra (Patna). A second area of Buddhist expansion in Southeast Asia extends from Myanmar in the north and west to the Mekong delta in the south and east. 220p. Its disciplinary, sartorial, and cenobitic settings are identical with those of the Hindu sannyasi. Asian visions of authority: religion and the modern states of East and Southeast Asia. As time went on, Buddhist monasticism was fully integrated into societies in Southeast Asia and in Tang and, especially, Song China. Buddhism, like most Indian systems of thought, sees the world as a realm of transmigration, or reincarnation ( samsara ), from which one may escape by attaining nirvana. The Buddha Dharma isn't earth-centric, and the humility that arises from that feels wholesome. 2000 47-68 Hamilton Asia HQ1745.8 .O83 2000, Thompson, Ashley (1998), The ancestral cult in transition: reflections on spatial organization in Cambodia's early Theravada complex In: Klokke, Marijke J.; Bruijn, Thomas de, eds. Monasteries were given land, buildings, novice sponsorship, and donations by political authorities and wealthy businesspersons as a matter of routine. Throughout much of the history of Angkor, the great imperial centre that ruled Cambodia and much of the surrounding areas for many centuries, Hinduism seems to have been the preferred tradition, at least among the elite. Schopen, Gregory. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1981. 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Huxley, Andrew. In mainland Southeast Asia, as in Sri Lanka, a Theravada reform movement emerged in the 11th century. The early councils and schisms were followed by modifications in later times and other places. The Southeast Asian kingdom has some 40,000 Buddhist temples and almost 300,000 monks. Educational standards and facilities were not as developed as in men's monasteries, but women built and maintained strong traditions of meditation, ritual, and community solidarity. ." Refer to each styles convention regarding the best way to format page numbers and retrieval dates. Patriarchal societies and gender values took their toll on women's institutions. Because Buddhist monasteries enjoyed popular support and often wielded political power, Buddhism was sometimes criticized and even persecuted or regulated by lay authorities. Farmers began to complain about crops destroyed by Buddhists wandering in the monsoon, poorly nourished and weak monks and nuns began to develop illnesses, and the large numbers were difficult to manage. The place of animism within popular Buddhism in Cambodia: the example of the monastery Asian folklore studies. Buddhism in South-East Asia: a cultural survey. 333p. 363p. In the monastic literature, whenever the Buddha prohibited an action and instituted a rule, he did so to please his disciples. In the other Theravada countries in Southeast Asia, Buddhism has had a much more difficult time. Political turmoil and the revival of Buddhism in Cambodia [Japanese] Southeast Asian studies. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1981. They usually lack a body of rules and conventions that would be recognized or accepted by a wider Hindu-Buddhist-Jain consensus. The generic term for the Buddhist monastic order is the sangha; the terms denoting the order in all Buddhist countries are literal translations of the Indian word. 1989 55-69 Hamilton Asia BQ100 .B78 1989, De Silva, Padmiri (1998), Buddhist perspectives on the environmental crisis: comprehending the malady and exploring a remedy In: Gyallay-Pap, Peter; Bottomley, Ruth, eds. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1981. Honolulu, Hawaii 96822 USA (Religion, history, and culture.) What Is the Most Widely Practiced Religion in the World. Barabudur: history and significance of a Buddhist monument. Southeast Asian archaeology 1966: proceedings of the 6th International Conference of the European Association of Southeast Asian Archaeologists, Leiden, 2-6 September 1996. Sexual relations, marriage, procreation, family life, career, and personal concerns are distractions from religious concerns and thus rejected as preconditions for admission to the Buddhist monastic communities. Munster: Lit, 1994. Dynamics of ethnic cultures across national boundaries in Southwestern China and Mainland Southeast Asia: relations, societies and languages. As a result, monastic institutions increased, for example, in Tibet and Mongolia, where thousands of new Buddhist monasteries were built in the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. "Buddhist Law as Religious System?" 1999 1-10 Hamilton Asia DS528.5 .M93 1999, Anonymous (1998), International Theravada Buddhist Missionary University, Yangon, the Union of Myanmar : inauguration ceremony, 9 December 1998 souvenir, a commemorative publication, [Rangoon] : Ministry of Religious Affairs Hamilton Asia Folio BQ20 .I584 1998, Appleton, George (1943), Buddhism in Burma [London, Calcutta, etc.] Therefore, that information is unavailable for most Encyclopedia.com content. (1990), Candi Jago: a Javanese interpretation of the wheel of existence?, Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs (Sydney) 24 (Win 1990) 23-85, O'Connor, Stanley J. In principle, the rules are laid down in the vinaya (monastic rules) portion of the Buddhas sermons, but monastic traditions and regulations have also been shaped by environmental and cultural conditions. While Buddhism had a political role in China in giving legitimacy to rulers, this was much more. (Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica, no.140.) 253p. The Buddhist community's moderate asceticism and Middle Way doctrines were transmitted intact into an enormous variety of cultures, preserving monasticism as the constant, the vehicle and foundation necessary to reestablish itself in a foreign environment. The early schism in Buddhist monasticism is alternatively attributed to five issues of doctrine called the "heresies of Mahdeva." 487-518, 9p. 1 (1995): 745. The first dhyana (Zen; Vietnamese thien), or meditation, school was introduced by Vinitaruchi (Vinitaruci), an Indian monk who had gone to Vietnam from China in the 6th century. All of the specifics of the First, Second, and later Councilsthe dates, the places, the topics, the resolutions, the participantsare subject to questions. The dynamics of change in an exiled pagoda: Vietnamese Buddhism in Montreal Canberra anthropology. For most beings, nirvana lies in the distant future, because Buddhism, like other faiths of India, believes in a cycle of rebirth. Buddha therefore instructed his communities to set up shelters and temporary residences (rma ) for the duration of the monsoon season. Aforementioned examples could help to see how the active trade networks and the increase of the monastic system in the Indian Subcontinent permitted both the expansion of Buddhism towards the east, and also reinforced the cultural interactions between the people living along the Silk Roads. The power of Pagan Archaeology. Bangkok: Sathirakoses-Nagapradipa Foundation; Foundation for Children, 1999. Researches in Indian history, archaeology, art and religion: Prof. Upendra Thakur felicitation volume. Then, copy and paste the text into your bibliography or works cited list. Buddhism was a new innovation that adapted as India grew and developed. Cambridge, Eng. 47: 35-41. In most of Malaysia and Indonesia, however, both Hinduism and Buddhism were replaced by Islam, which remains the dominant religion in the area. The preservation and adaptation of the tradition: studies of Chinese religious expression in Southeast Asia. Montreal: Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies; Toronto: Museum for Textiles, 1994. Nonetheless, monasticism became the vehicle for the transmission of Buddhism to Tibet, China, and Japan, and to new monastic sites in Cambodia, Pagan, Burma, Java, and elsewhere. Fruits of inspiration: studies in honour of Prof. J.G. Through Buddhist history, in communities of celibate Buddhist men and women there were two ideal modes of behavior, reflecting the origins and historical developments preserved in the Buddha's story. So far we have discussed the contiributino of Brahmin to the early transmission of Indian culture to southeast Asia. Even after the Chinese had been driven back, a Chinese-like bureaucracy closely supervised the Vietnamese monasteries. (1995), A text book of the history of Theravada Buddhism / Delhi : Dept. Each country's circumstances are unique, but in Myanmar, a country with deep Buddhist roots, it is a legal offence for women to ordain as a bhikkhuni, and punishable by imprisonment. The art and culture of South-East Asia. The Daoist quest after the elixir of life, and its expression in cryptic and enigmatic poetry that is well known to, and generally misunderstood by, modern European and American readers, are in no way comparable to the supererogatory search of the monastics thus far discussed. Buddhist approaches found in Southeast Asia, Tibet, and China; and the indigenous Chinese traditions, Daoism and Neo-Confucianism. 430p., 20p. (Berkeley Buddhist studies series, 2.) Women most often did not have access to monastic education. Encyclopedia.com. While there were obviously developments of major significance resulting in schisms in the community and the development of historical sects, little of the data in the accounts of the early Buddhist conventions and institutions can be confirmed. Under the communist regime that has ruled the reunited country since 1975, conditions have been difficult, but Buddhism has persisted. By the 1100s C.E., Buddhism had declined mainly as a result of Muslim incursions. Pla era kings especially established and legitimized their imperial rule by resorting to Buddhist religious models and extensive support of Buddhist monasteries. 6-63 Hamilton Asia BQ410 .B8 1993, Totten, George O. Kathmandu, Nepal. The world of Buddhism: Buddhist monks and nuns in society and culture. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1981. For instance, Buddhist monasteries started to set up along the developing trade routes, such as the road that was connecting, Moreover, these commercials exchanges contributed also to the improvement of the Buddhist monks situation. Yifa. Sacred biography in the Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Phnom Penh: The Buddhist Institute, 1998. Papers presented at the International Conference on Southeast Asian Literatures, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City, 19-21 May 1997. Buddhism in Southeast Asia Card 3 of 11 Early Buddhist History: The Councils According to Buddhist tradition, when the Buddha died (about 480 BCE), Mahakasyapa, one of his senior disciples, convened a council of 500 enlightened monks to determine how to go forward without their teacher. Members were bound by vows that did not include celibacy or poverty but stressed obedience to the hierarchy. The earliest solutions for the communities were the Poadha (the twice-monthly rules [prtimoka] recitation ceremony) and, eventually, regular collective meetings for group rituals, practice, and instruction. Yangon: s.n.,. Moreover, since the late 19th century, monks in many Japanese traditions have been permitted to marry, and major Japanese temples now house married monastics. ." Of the not numerous but clearly monastic or quasi-monastic organizations of recent origin in other parts of Asia, the Vietnamese Cao Dai achieved some impact. Buddhism and Asian history. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1981. The Sthaviras evidently saw a need to expand the Vinaya to meet changing conditions. Indeed, in addition to places for meditation and worship, monasteries were centers for the study and practice of medicine, for writing and building library collections, for Buddhist arts, for adjudicating community disputes, and in general for serving the needs of host communities. 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