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Buddhist Monastic Life: According to the Texts of the Theravada Tradition

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Divinity Atlas. "Buddhist Monastic Life: According to the Texts of the Theravada Tradition." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/buddhist-monastic-life-according-to-the-texts-of-the-theravada-tradition.

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Divinity Atlas. (n.d.). Buddhist Monastic Life: According to the Texts of the Theravada Tradition. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/buddhist-monastic-life-according-to-the-texts-of-the-theravada-tradition

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  author = {Divinity Atlas},
  title = {Buddhist Monastic Life: According to the Texts of the Theravada Tradition},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/buddhist-monastic-life-according-to-the-texts-of-the-theravada-tradition},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Mohan Wijayaratna, himself trained as a Theravada monk before becoming an academic historian of Buddhism, works directly from the Vinaya texts themselves to reconstruct the actual procedures of ordination and monastic discipline, a dual grounding in both the primary textual tradition and lived monastic practice that is the study's real evidentiary basis rather than a claim about its publisher. Its documented method traces the ordination procedure and its quorum requirements, the Patimokkha rules, the automatic effect of the parajika offences, and the founding of the nuns' order directly against the canonical Vinaya. Use it for established facts about Theravada monastic ordination and discipline as the Vinaya itself sets them out; a claim about how a specific modern monastery actually applies these rules today needs a contemporary ethnographic source alongside it.

Facts

Citation

Author

Mohan Wijayaratna

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Publication Year

1990

URL

https://archive.org/details/buddhistmonastic0000wija

Source Type

academic monograph

Assessment

Reliability Tier

Mohan Wijayaratna's scholarly study of Theravada monastic texts on the Vinaya, covering ordination procedure, the Patimokkha, the parajika offences and the founding of the nuns' order, published by Cambridge University Press.

Notes

On the Vinaya: the ordination procedure and its quorum requirements, the Patimokkha, the parajika offences and their automatic effect, and the founding of the nuns' order.

Cross-Tradition Connections

Associated With

Theravada

This source names Theravada directly: "Mohan Wijayaratna, himself trained as a Theravada monk before becoming an academic historian of Buddhism, works directly from the Vinaya texts themselves to reconstruct the actual procedures of..."

Source Buddhist Monastic Life: According to the Texts of the Theravada TraditionMohan Wijayaratna

Claims Backed By This Source (85 claims)

This source backs 85 claims across the atlas. As facts: 54 well-attested. As cited relationships: 10 holds. Plus 21 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

Religious Roles & Titles, 21 claims: 13 well-attested, 2 holds, 6 general references.
Rituals, 15 claims: 11 well-attested, 1 holds, 3 general references.
Practices, 13 claims: 11 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
Articles, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
Prayers, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
Denominations, 4 claims: 3 holds, 1 general references.
Organizations, 4 claims: 4 general references.
Religious Dress & Vestments, 2 claims: 2 general references.
Religious Organization & Structure, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
Scriptures & Texts, 2 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 general references.
Sacred Sound, 1 claims: 1 general references.