[INDOLOGY] Buddhism and removal of dirt

[Artur Karp]

Dear Christopher,

Am grateful for the access to your PhD dissertation. Unfortunately, I am
unable to consult these two other publications. Could I count on your
sending me pdfs of their appropriate fragments?

As far as I know, in Myanmar the removal of the monks' fecalia is
traditionally considered to be the duty of a class of 'monastery servants'
- sort of conscripted, from the times immemorial, to serve in this role.

Is this situation the norm also in Thailand, Cambodia and Sri Lanka?

Best,

Artur Karp
Polska

2017-07-10 15:28 GMT+02:00 Christopher Handy via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> Dear Dr. Karp,
>
> There is some information on removing human urine and excrement from
> monastery floors in
> volume 1, pp. 150 and 168 of
>
> Karashima, Seishi, trans. 2012. Die Abhisamācārikā Dharmāḥ:
> Verhaltensregen für
> buddhistische Mönche der Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins. 3 vols. Tokyo: The
> International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology.
>
> One thing I found very interesting there is that human excrement is
> perceived as
> defiling, but cow excrement is perceived as purifying (it is actually
> recommended
> for cleaning the floor).
>
> This book may also be useful to you:
>
> Heirman, Ann and Mathieu Torck. 2012. A Pure Mind in a Clean Body: Bodily
> Care in
> the Buddhist Monasteries of Ancient India and China. Gent: Academia Press.
>
> I also have a chapter in my dissertation (chapter 4) on Buddhist lavatory
> protocol:
>
> Handy, Christopher Aaron. 2016. “"Indian Buddhist Etiquette and the
> Emergence of Ascetic Civility.” Ph.D.
> Diss. McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario.
> https://macsphere.mcmaster.ca/handle/11375/20471
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Chris Handy
>
>
> On 7/10/17 6:49 AM, Artur Karp via INDOLOGY wrote:
>
> >  monograph
>
> *paper or monograph*
>
> 2017-07-10 9:25 GMT+02:00 Artur Karp <karp at uw.edu.pl>:
>
>> Dear List,
>>
>> is there any monograph devoted to the techniques of cleansing monasteries
>> and - especially - of the removal of fecal matter?
>>
>> Respectfully,
>>
>> Artur Karp (ret.)
>> Chair of South Asian Studies
>> University of Warsaw
>> Polska
>>
>
>
>
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> PhD in Religious Studies (McMaster, 2016)
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