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Acceptance and rejection in Buddhist monasticism: spatial organization in Nalanda monasteries in Bihar

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dc.contributor.author Dhammananda, Galkande
dc.date.accessioned 2015-03-16T05:40:52Z
dc.date.available 2015-03-16T05:40:52Z
dc.date.issued 2013
dc.identifier History en_US
dc.identifier.citation Dhammananda himi, Galkande, 2013. Acceptance and rejection in Buddhist monasticism: spatial organization in Nalanda monasteries in Bihar, In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Social Sciences, University of Kelaniya, pp 27. en_US
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dc.identifier.uri http://repository.kln.ac.lk/handle/123456789/5729
dc.description.abstract When we reconstruct the history of relationships and hierarchies among people and groups the study of spatial organization provides much information. The „space‟ is a production that narrates the nature of relationships, hierarchies, organizational structures, rejection and acceptance of certain people and groups who live or interact with that particular space. Perhaps the story narrated by the spatial studies differs considerably from the story narrated by the literature. Such relationships, hierarchies and organizational structures that maintained in monasteries are reconstructed mainly considering on literary sources which have their own limitations and biases. Therefore, there is a vacuum for studies of the spatial organization of Buddhist monasteries. In this paper the spatial organization of Nalanda monasteries of Bihar (4th century to 13th century) is analyzed. Objectives of this paper are to explore and reconstruct the above mentioned different relationships, hierarchies and organizational structures that have been maintained among inmates and between lay and clergy of Nalanda, a Buddhist monastery that represents a mature level of the development of the idea of „monastery‟. In exploring this archaeological and architectural remains of ritual and residential spaces will be analyzed in details horizontally and vertically. The way of the ritual and residential spaces are organized, their orientations, centrality and different levels of restrictive methods adopted through spatial organization will be analyzed here. Several levels of hierarchies among monks and between lay and clergy are seen. While attempting to keep lay people away from the spaces of the monks the effort is seen to welcome them with certain restrictions and limitations. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher University of Kelaniya en_US
dc.subject Buddhist monasticism en_US
dc.subject Nalanda en_US
dc.subject Built environment en_US
dc.subject Spatial organization 1 Department en_US
dc.title Acceptance and rejection in Buddhist monasticism: spatial organization in Nalanda monasteries in Bihar en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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