Self and Society: Essays on
Pali Literature and Social Theory 1988-2010
Contents:
*1. Pali Literature:*
Chapter 1: On the Very Idea of the Pali Canon [1990]
Chapter 2: Oral Aspects of Pali Literature [1992]
Chapter 3: What is Literature in Pali? [2003]
*2. The Theory and Practice of Not-self:*
Chapter 4: What are Buddhists /doing/ when they deny the self? [1994]
Chapter 5: The Body in Theravāda Buddhist Monasticism [1997]
Chapter 6: A Buddhist Debate about the self; and remarks on Buddhism in the
work of Derek Parfit and Galen Strawson [1997]
Chapter 7: Of Death and Trees [1998]
*3. Buddhism and Society:*
Chapter 8: Monasticism, Utopias and Comparative Social Theory [1988]
Chapter 9: Louis Dumont and the Study of Religions [1989]
Chapter 10: Buddhist nuns (/maechi/) and the teaching of Pali in
Thailand' (with Justin McDaniel) [2010]
The book is published by Silkworm in Chiang Mai, but is available
through the University of Washington Press and amazon.com.
Please let me also take this opportunity to introduce a related article:
‘Reflections on the dichotomy /rūpakāya///dhammakāya/,
published on-line in /Contemporary Buddhism/:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14639947.2014.932481
In the article I try to show that the common assumption that the
word /rūpakāya/ refers to relics and images is wrong, and offer what
I hope are some new thoughts on the alleged dichotomy between this
word and /dhammakāya/.
Steve Collins
University of Chicago
