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Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana : A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra /

Bodhisattvas of the Forest delves into the socioreligious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. In this meticulously researched study, Daniel...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boucher, Daniel (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2008]
Colección:Studies in the Buddhist Traditions
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Asceticism and the Glorification of the Buddha's Body: The Indian Text of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra
  • Chapter One: The Physiognomy of Virtue
  • Chapter Two: Former Life Narratives and the Bodhisattva Career
  • Chapter Three: Wilderness Dwelling and the Ascetic Disciplines
  • Chapter Four: "Profit and Honor": A Critique of Sedentary Monasticism
  • Part II: Indian Buddhism through a Chinese Lens: Dharmarakṛa's Translation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra
  • Chapter Five: The Role of Translation in Reconstructing the Early Mahāyāna
  • Chapter Six: Mistranslation and Missed Translation
  • Part III: An Annotated Translation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra
  • One: Prologue
  • Two: The Story of Puṇyaraśmi
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index