Looking for Vinaya studies

[Aminah]

Advanced apologies if you’re looking for work that handles the whole Vinaya, and/or was written within the last half century. If you’re not fussed about those details though, you might be interested in Frauwallner’s study of the Khandhaka.

Frauwallner’s “Earliest Vinaya”: a scanned pdf to download

Here’s a scanned copy of Frauwallner’s classic study of the Vinaya Skandhaka texts. It is a landmark work in modern academic scholarship of the Vinaya, but is almost unavailable outside a few University libraries. I made a scanned copy a few years ago. In the last little while I’ve learned how to do OCR on a pdf, so I’ve made a searchable version for my own use. I thought some others might find it handy. If you’re interested in the history of the early community and the evolution of the early …

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Also, Petra Kieffer-Pülz has done some work on the Vinaya. Alas she hasn’t yet made it off my own “Yet to get round to list”, but all the same, she offers titles such as:

Petra Kieffer-Pülz, "Stretching the Vinaya Rules and Getting Away with it...