The Buddhist "Monastery" and the Indian Garden: Aesthetics, Assimilations, and the Siting of Monastic Establishments.

This article focuses on the vocabulary used to refer to early Buddhist establishments in India. Buddhist monks, in both texts and inscriptions, refer to their monasteries or cloisters as vihāras or ārāmas. The term vihāra in Classical Sanskrit meant walking or touring for pleasure, while ārāma would...

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Publicado en:Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 126; no. 4; pp. 487 - 506
Autor principal: Schopen, Gregory
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Publicado: American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA) Oct-Dec2006
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