Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Gregory Schopen
  • Introduction: Buddhism as a Pragmatic Religious Tradition
  • Popular Narratives and their "Domestication" in Buddhist Communities
  • The Development of Buddhist Ritualism
  • The Ritual Innovations of Mahayana Buddhism
  • Nepal and Newar Buddhism
  • The Context and Paradoxes of Modernity
  • Stupas and Spouses: The Shrngabheri Avadana
  • Merchants, Demonesses, and Missionary Faith: The Simhalasarthabahu Avadana
  • Devotions to a Celestial Bodhisattva: The Tara Vrata
  • Invoking the Powers of the Buddhist "Dark Lord": The Caturdashi Vrata of Mahakala
  • The Refuge of Recitation: The Pancaraksa.