Shayne Clarke, McMaster University
Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies
Hamilton, Ontario
clarsha@mcmaster.ca
Office:
(905) 525-9140 ext. 23389
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Bio/Research
My research interests focus on Indian Buddhist monasticism, with particular reference to Buddhist monastic law codes vinaya preserved in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese. I am primarily concerned with trying to understand what it meant to be a Buddhist monk/nun in India. To that end, my for...
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Bio/Research
My research interests focus on Indian Buddhist monasticism, with particular reference to Buddhist monastic law codes vinaya preserved in Sanskrit, Pali, Tibetan, and Chinese. I am primarily concerned with trying to understand what it meant to be a Buddhist monk/nun in India. To that end, my forthcoming monograph, Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticism uses epigraphical and literary sources (Sanskrit drama, etc.) in addition to canonical Buddhist law codes to reconsider the role of the family in monastic Buddhism: relationships between monks and nuns, their families, children, marriages, and celibacy.
I also have ongoing research interests in Buddhist sutra literature in general, both Mainstream and Mahayana, and particularly in the differences between the visions of the religious life portrayed in sutra and monastic law vinaya. I am also interested in the study of material culture in the archaeological, art-historical, epigraphical, and textual records, and the role of humour and narrative in religious and legal texts. Other interests include the study of the translation and transmission of Buddhists texts from India to China, Tibet, etc., the development of Buddhist sectarianism, and the reception of Buddhism in China and Japan, particularly as reflected in Japanese literature of the Tokugawa, Meiji, and Taisho periods.
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I also have ongoing research interests in Buddhist sutra literature in general, both Mainstream and Mahayana, and particularly in the differences between the visions of the religious life portrayed in sutra and monastic law vinaya. I am also interested in the study of material culture in the archaeological, art-historical, epigraphical, and textual records, and the role of humour and narrative in religious and legal texts. Other interests include the study of the translation and transmission of Buddhists texts from India to China, Tibet, etc., the development of Buddhist sectarianism, and the reception of Buddhism in China and Japan, particularly as reflected in Japanese literature of the Tokugawa, Meiji, and Taisho periods.
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