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ISSN 1076-9005
Volume 15, 2008
Review of Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya
Going Forth: Visions of Buddhist Vinaya. Edited by William M. Bodiford. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005, x + 317 pages, ISBN: 0-8248-2787-2, US $48.00 (cloth).
Monasticism has been a central feature of the Buddhist tradition from its founding in India to its present revival in China and spread to America. Given the importance of monasticism and the vinaya, the rules for living as a monk in a monastery, it is refreshing to find a volume dedicated to exploring this terrain. Going Forth is a collection of essays about the vinaya, precepts, ordinations, penance rituals, monks and monasteries in China and Japan written by former students of Stanley Weinstein and presented in his honor. Given the nature of the volume, the connection between chapters is necessarily loose, bearing on disparate issues related to the vinaya and monasticism in China and Japan across time periods ranging from the fifth to the twentieth century.
