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Coming to Terms with a Monk’s Seduction: Speculations on the Conduct of Sgra tshad pa Rin chen rnam rgyal (1318–1388)

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This article compares two versions of a story about a Tibetan Buddhist monk, Sgra tshad pa Rin chen rnam rgyal (1318–1388), who engages in sexual intercourse with a laywoman. The authors of these two narratives, dating from the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, each provide a different rationale for the monk’s behavior. In the earlier telling, Rin chen rnam rgyal is said to have “eased the suffering” of a “lust-crazed” woman, conducting himself virtuously, as a bodhisattva. In the later telling, the monk is forcibly seduced by his patron and he adheres to a provision found in the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya, which specifies that the usual punishment intended for a Vinaya transgression of sexual intercourse—loss of communion from the order—may be commuted if the act has not been concealed from others. This article focuses on the transformation of the story and proposes that its changes contribute to the author’s wider commentary on strict Vinaya observance as an element of Buddhist monastic exemplarity.

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Abbreviations

Sde dge :

The Sde-dge Mtshal-par Bka’-’gyur: a facsimile edition of the 18th-century redaction of Si-tu Chos-kyi-’byuṅ-gnas prepared under the direction of H. H. the 16th Rgyal-dbaṅ Karma-pa (103 Vols.). Delhi: Delhi Karmapae Chodhey Gyalwae Sungrab Partun Khang, 1976–1979

Stog :

The Tog Palace Manuscript of the Tibetan Kanjur (109 Vols.). Leh: Smanrtsis Shesrig Dpemzod, 1975–1980

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This article is based on a chapter of my doctoral dissertation, completed at the University of Toronto (2012) under the supervision of Frances Garrett. The chapter itself was a development of a research paper completed for a graduate seminar at McMaster University in 2011, led by Shayne Clarke. My doctoral work was generously supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Graduate Scholarship. I am also grateful to St. Francis College for its support in the form of a Faculty Research Grant (2014–2015), which enabled me to complete this article. I would like to thank Frances Garrett, Shayne Clarke, Rory Lindsay, and the anonymous reviewer for offering their valuable insights. Khenpo Kunga Sherab generously assisted me with the Tibetan sources consulted in this study. I would also like to thank Carola Roloff (Bhikṣuṇī Jampa Tsedron), Jan-Ulrich Sobisch, Gareth Sparham, and Leonard van der Kuijp for kindly answering specific inquiries related to the materials studied in this article.

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Wood, B. Coming to Terms with a Monk’s Seduction: Speculations on the Conduct of Sgra tshad pa Rin chen rnam rgyal (1318–1388). J Indian Philos 45, 207–234 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-016-9304-0

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