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The Vinaya:
Legal System or Performance-Enhancing Drug?

By Andrew Huxley

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The Vinaya has outlasted Hammurabi and Justinian because it is a set of spiritual exercises rather than a legal system.

About: Vinaya Studies The Vinaya Monastic Buddhism

Published in 1996 in “The Buddhist Forum” (Tadeusz Skorupski ed.) by SOAS, London.

Bibtex Data

@inproceedings{huxley1996-vinaya,
    title={{T}he {V}inaya: {L}egal {S}ystem or {P}erformance-{E}nhancing {D}rug?},
    author={Andrew Huxley},
    booktitle={The Buddhist Forum},
    editor={Tadeusz Skorupski},
    publisher={SOAS},
    address={London},
    year=1996,
    volume=4,
    pages={141--162},
    chapter=8,
    keywords={vinaya-studies,vinaya-pitaka,monastic},
    ranking={rank5},
    url={https://www.shin-ibs.edu/documents/bForum/v4/08Huxley.pdf}
}

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