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Speaking for Buddhas : scriptural commentary in Indian Buddhism /
As with many religious and philosophical traditions, Buddhist intellectual discourse owes its development to a dynamic interplay of primary source material and subsequent interpretation, yet until now Buddhist scholarship has neglected to privilege one crucial series of texts. Commentaries on Buddhi...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2012.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | As with many religious and philosophical traditions, Buddhist intellectual discourse owes its development to a dynamic interplay of primary source material and subsequent interpretation, yet until now Buddhist scholarship has neglected to privilege one crucial series of texts. Commentaries on Buddhist scripture, particularly the sutras, written by seminal thinkers across the history of Indian Buddhism, contain myriad insights into the relationship between textual analysis and ritual practice. Evaluating these commentaries in detail for the first time, Richard F. Nance revisits-and rewrite. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (viii, 298 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780231526678 0231526679 1280599766 9781280599767 9786613629609 661362960X |