Minding the Buddha's Business

“Minding the Buddha’s Business offers eloquent testimony to the enduring impact on Buddhist studies of Gregory Schopen, a scholar of extraordinary creativity and achievement, who has single-handedly led what we now call the Schopen Revolution in our understanding of the Indian Buddhist tradition. Professor Schopen’s writing, while always rigorously researched and elegantly composed, is also wonderfully witty and entertaining. Not bad for a boy from Deadwood, South Dakota, whose first job after receiving his PhD was serving as a night watchman at a Wyoming sawmill!”–Robert E. Buswell Jr., Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities, Emeritus and Distinguished Research Professor of Buddhist Studies, University of California, Los Angeles

Daniel Boucher is an associate professor of Sino-Indian Buddhism at Cornell University. He specializes in the study of early Mahayana traditions with particular interests in the use of early Chinese translations for the study of Indian Buddhism, Gandharan Buddhism and the recent early manuscript discoveries from that region, and sociological and literary critical methods for understanding the emergence of Mahayana literature and the authorial communities that produced and circulated it. He is the author of Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana: A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra.

Shayne Clarke is an associate professor in McMaster University’s Department of Religious Studies. He is a specialist in the study of Indian Buddhist monastic law (Vinaya), working primarily on legal texts–both canonical and commentarial–preserved in Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese. The author of Family Matters in Indian Buddhist Monasticisms (2014), he aims to recover, among other things, lost voices and views from premodern sources, including those related to pregnant nuns and monastic mothers: Buddhist monasticism, but not as we have generally imagined it.