Setting Out on the Great Way

Essays on Early Mahāyāna Buddhism

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2019
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78179-853-9 (ISBN)

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Setting Out on the Great Way brings together different perspectives on the origins and early history of Mahāyāna Buddhism and delves into selected aspects of its formative period. As the variety of the religion which conquered East Asia and also provided the matrix for the later development of Buddhist Tantra or Vajrayāna, Mahāyāna is regarded as one of the most significant forms of Buddhism, and its beginnings have long been the focus of intense scholarly attention and debate.

The essays in this volume address the latest findings in the field, including contributions by younger researchers vigorously critiquing the reappraisal of the Mahāyāna carried out by scholars in the last decades of the 20th century and the different understanding of the movement which they produced. As the study of Buddhism as a whole reorients itself to embrace new methods and paradigms, while at the same time coming to terms with exciting new manuscript discoveries, our picture of the Mahāyāna continues to change. This volume presents the latest developments in this ongoing re-evaluation of one of Buddhism’s most important historical expressions.

Paul Harrison is the George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

1. Sara Boin-Webb, Translator of Buddhist Texts (1937–2008)
Russell Webb

2. Early Mahāyāna: Laying Out the Field
Paul Harrison

3. How the Unborn was Born: The Riddle of Mahāyāna Origins
Peter Skilling, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Bangkok

4. The Forest Hypothesis
David Drewes, University of Manitoba

5. Recruitment and Retention in Early Bodhisattva Sodalities
Daniel Boucher, Cornell University

6. Abhidharma in Early Mahāyāna
Johannes Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne

7. The Concept of `Remodelling the World’
Shizuka Sasaki, Hanazono University

8. Altered States and the Origins of the Mahāyāna
Douglas Osto, Massey University

9. Early Mahāyāna in Gandhāra: New Evidence from the Bajaur Mahāyāna Sūtra
Ingo Strauch, University of Lausanne

10. Looking for Mahāyāna Bodhisattvas: A Reflection on Visual Evidence in Early Indian Buddhism
Juhyung Rhi,Seoul National University

Erscheinungsdatum	03.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	36 figures
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Buddhismus
ISBN-10	1-78179-853-2 / 1781798532
ISBN-13	978-1-78179-853-9 / 9781781798539
Zustand	Neuware