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The suppression of nuns and the ritual murder of their special dead in two buddhist monastic texts

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Abbreviations

BD :

I.B. Horner, The Book of the Discipline (Oxford & London: 1938–1966) Vols. I–VI

BEFEO :

Bulletin de l'École française d'extrême-orient

BHSD :

F. Edgerton, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary (New Haven: 1953) Vol. II

Derge:

The Tibetan Tripitaka. Taipei Edition (Taipei: 1991) — cited according to original section, volume and folio.

DPPN :

G.P. Malalasekera, Dictionary of Pāli Proper Names (London: 1937–38) Vols. I–II

GMs iii:

N. Dutt, Gilgit Manuscripts (Srinagar & Calcutta: 1942–50) Vol. III, Parts I–IV.

GMsSA :

R. Gnoli, The Gilgit Manuscript of the Śayanāsanavastu and the Adhikaranavastu (Serie Orientale Roma, 50) (Rome: 1978)

GMsSB :

R. Gnoli, The Gilgit Manuscript of the Sanghabhedavastu (Serie Orientale Roma, 49.1 & 2) (Rome: 1977–78) Parts I–II

JA :

Journal asiatique JIABS = Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies

JIP :

Journal of Indian Philosophy

JPTS :

Journal of the Pāli Text Society

MSV :

Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya

Pāli Vinaya :

H. Oldenberg, The Vinaya Pitakam (London: 1879–83) Vols. I–V

Tog:

The Tog Palace Manuscript of the Tibetan Kanjur (Leh: 1979) — cited according to original section, volume and folio

TSD :

L. Chandra, Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary (New Delhi: 1959–61) Parts I–XII

WZKS :

Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens

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Schopen, G. The suppression of nuns and the ritual murder of their special dead in two buddhist monastic texts. J Indian Philos 24, 563–592 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00165539

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