{"id":102,"date":"2010-04-05T11:41:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T15:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=102"},"modified":"2010-05-25T10:04:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T14:04:02","slug":"vinaya-in-theravaada-temples-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2010\/04\/05\/vinaya-in-theravaada-temples-in-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinaya in American Therav\u0101da Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 1 1994<\/h6>\n<h3>Vinaya in Therav\u0101da Temples in the United States<\/h3>\n<p>Paul David Numrich<br \/>\nUniversity of Illinois at Chicago<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<em>Vinaya<\/em> (the monastic discipline) plays an essential role in defining traditional Therav\u0101da Buddhism. This article examines the current state of <em>vinaya <\/em>recitation and practice in the nearly 150 immigrant Therav\u0101da Buddhist temples in the United States, and also speculates on the prospect of traditional Therav\u0101da&#8217;s firm establishment in this country. Specific <em>vinaya <\/em>issues discussed include the <em>p\u0101timokkha <\/em>ceremony, the discussion about <em>vinaya<\/em> adaptation to the American context, adaptations in the areas of monastic attire and relations with women, and principles of adaptation at work in Therav\u0101da temples in the United States.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2010\/04\/Vinaya-in-Theravaada-Temples.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinaya in Theravaada Temples in the United States<\/p>\n<p>By Paul David Numrich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2678,2592,2786,1229],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-01-1994","tag-monasticism","tag-theravada","tag-u-s","tag-western"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-1E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}