{"id":3671,"date":"2014-01-05T11:40:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/?p=3671"},"modified":"2014-07-06T16:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T20:03:05","slug":"rethinking-the-precept-of-not-taking-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2014\/01\/05\/rethinking-the-precept-of-not-taking-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Rethinking the Precept of Not Taking Money"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>ISSN 1076-9005<br \/>\nVolume 21, 2014<\/h6>\n<h3>Rethinking the Precept of Not Taking Money in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Nunneries<\/h3>\n<p>Tzu-Lung Chiu<br \/>\nUniversity of Ghent<\/p>\n<p>According to monastic disciplinary texts, Buddhist monastic members are prohibited from accepting \u201cgold and silver,\u201d and arguably, by extension, any type of money. This rule has given rise to much debate, in the past as well as in the present, particularly between Mah\u0101y\u0101na and Therav\u0101da Buddhist communities. The article explores the results of my multiple-case qualitative study of eleven monastic institutions in Taiwan and Mainland China, and reveals a hitherto under-theorized conflict between <em>Vinaya<\/em> rules and the bodhisattva ideal, as well as a diversity of opinions on the applicability of the rule against money handling as it has been shaped by socio-cultural contexts, including nuns\u2019 adaptation to the laity\u2019s ethos. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/files\/2014\/01\/Chiu-Rethinking-final1.pdf\">Read article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISSN 1076-9005 Volume 21, 2014 Rethinking the Precept of Not Taking Money in Contemporary Taiwanese and Mainland Chinese Buddhist Nunneries Tzu-Lung Chiu University of Ghent According to monastic disciplinary texts, Buddhist monastic members are prohibited from accepting \u201cgold and silver,\u201d and arguably, by extension, any type of money. This rule has given rise to much &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/2014\/01\/05\/rethinking-the-precept-of-not-taking-money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rethinking the Precept of Not Taking Money<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[71956],"tags":[1550,2642,2594,2678,1344,2670,2615,2592,1010],"class_list":["post-3671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-21-2014","tag-china","tag-chinese-buddhism","tag-mahayana","tag-monasticism","tag-money","tag-nuns","tag-taiwan","tag-theravada","tag-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5X8HA-Xd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671","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=3671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/buddhistethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}