Illustrations ............................................... xi
Notes on contributors ...................................... xii
Acknowledgements .......................................... xiii
Introduction: "Neither too far, nor too near": The
historical and cultural contexts of Buddhist monasteries
in medieval China and Japan ..................................... 1
JAMES ROBSON
1 Taking a meal at a lay supporter's residence: The
evolution of the practice in Chinese Vinaya commentaries .... 18
KOICHI SHINOHARA
2 Monastic spaces and sacred traces: Facets of Chinese
Buddhist monastic records ................................... 43
JAMES ROBSON
3 Pictorial program in the making of monastic space: From
Jing'aisi of Luoyang to Cave 217 at Dunhuang ................ 65
EUGENE WANG
4 The monastery cat in cross-cultural perspective: Cat
poems of the Zen masters ................................... 107
Т.Н. BARRETT
5 The monastic institution in medieval Japan: The insider's
view ....................................................... 125
WILLIAM BODIFORD
6 Vows for the masses: Eison and the popular expansion of
precept-conferral ceremonies in premodern Japan ............ 148
LORI MEEKS
7 Кōеn and the "consecrated ordination" within Japanese
Tendai ..................................................... 178
PAUL GRONER
Bibliography ............................................... 208
Index ...................................................... 227
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