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Bodhisattvas of the forest and the formation of the Mahāyāna : a study and translation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipr̥cchā-sūtra /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boucher, Daniel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Sanskrit
Publicado: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2008.
Colección:Studies in the Buddhist traditions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Asceticism and the glorification of the Buddha's body: the Indian text of Rāṣṭrapālaparipr̥cchā-sūtra
  • The physiognomy of virtue
  • Former life narratives and the Bodhisattva career
  • Wilderness dwelling and the ascetic disciplines
  • "Profit and honor": a critique of sedentary monasticism
  • Indian Buddhism through a Chinese lens: Dharmarakṣaʹs translation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipr̥ccha-sūtra
  • The role of translation in reconstructing the early Mahāyāna
  • Mistranslation and missed translation
  • An annotated translation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipr̥ccha-sūtra.