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- Title: Virtuous Bodies: The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics (Book Review)
- Author : The Journal of the American Oriental Society
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 193 KB
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Virtuous Bodies: The Physical Dimensions of Morality in Buddhist Ethics. By SUZANNE MROZIK. OXFORD: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2007. Pp. 200. $45. Virtuous Bodies is based on Mrozik's 1998 Harvard dissertation, "The Relationship between Body and Morality According to the Siksasamuccayah" and several articles published over the last few years. The Siksasamuccaya, translated by Mrozik as Compendium of Training, is a collection of passages from Mainstream and Mahayana Buddhist scriptures, divided into nineteen chapters and interspersed with commentary. The compiler and commentator, Santideva--most likely a monk living in the eighth century at the great monastery of Nalanda--was a strong proponent of the Mahayana and intended the Compendium to be a manual for the bodhisattva. Because the Compendium contains citations of numerous Buddhist sutras, scholars over the last century have utilized the collection to shed light on the textual histories of the sources quoted at length within.
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