[Buddha-l] Vinaya Texts trans/ed. by Oldenberg

[Bankei]

2010/1/23 Blumenthal, James <james.blumenthal at oregonstate.edu>

> Diane Finnegan (aka Ven. Damcho) recently defended her dissertation at the
> University of Wisconsin on representations of spiritual friendship in the
> Vinaya.  I have not seen the final product and do not know what is included,
> but a couple of years ago she told me that she was preparing a translation
> of the entire Vinaya (Sarvastivada?) based on the Tibetan and Sanskrit.  I
> believe she had already translated about 1200 pages at that point.  The
> dissertation was not focussed on translation, but I would imagine she
> intends to publish the translations she has done.
>
> Jim Blumenthal
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Hi James

The dissertation is
"For the Sake of Women, Too": Ethics and Gender in the Narratives of the
Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya"

available online at http://nunscommunity.net/thesis.html