Abstract
AbstractThis article identifies and examines processes of othering in an early Indian Buddhist ascetic text, the PaliVinayaof the Theravādins. By means of: (1) a critical discussion of the fact that the PaliVinayaholds several terms for the early Buddhists' ascetic others; and (2) a close reading and analysis of a small group of – easily overlooked – PaliVinayapassages with explicit references to supposed practices of the early Buddhists' ascetic others, I make explicit two aspects of the processes of othering of the early Buddhist ascetic community. I show how through processes of othering Buddhistbhikkhus,or at the very least the monk-editors of the PaliVinaya,both negotiated a collective identity notion, and reflected on the significance of their own practices and values in direct relation to those of their ascetic others, whether real or imagined.
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