A Well-Sanitized Shroud: Asceticism and Institutional Values in the Middle Period of Buddhist Monasticism. Schopen, G. In Buddhist Nuns, Monks, and Other Worldly Matters, pages 276–310. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 2014.
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There can be very little doubt that the most visible development in the archaeology and epigraphy of Indian Buddhism in the period between the Mauryan and Gupta empires is the fact that Buddhist Communities came to be fully monasticized, permanently housed, landed, propertied, and—to judge by almost any standard—very wealthy. There also can be very little doubt that these developments occurred unevenly both in time and geography, and did not everywhere follow the same pattern, nor reach the same degree of elaboration. What we see now, for example, are widely scattered and not easily explainable pockets: the astonishing
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	abstract = {There can be very little doubt that the most visible development in the archaeology and epigraphy of Indian Buddhism in the period between the Mauryan and Gupta empires is the fact that Buddhist Communities came to be fully monasticized, permanently housed, landed, propertied, and—to judge by almost any standard—very wealthy. There also can be very little doubt that these developments occurred unevenly both in time and geography, and did not everywhere follow the same pattern, nor reach the same degree of elaboration. What we see now, for example, are widely scattered and not easily explainable pockets: the astonishing},
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