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Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism - Emptiness, Power and the question of Origin (Paperback)
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Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism - Emptiness, Power and the question of Origin (Paperback)
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Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism offers a solution to a problem
that some have called the holy grail of Buddhist studies: the
problem of the "origins" of Mahayana Buddhism. In a work that
contributes both to a general theory of religion and power for
religious studies as well as to the problem of the origin of a
Buddhist movement, Walser argues that that it is the neglect of
political and social power in the scholarly imagination of the
history of Buddhism that has made the origins of Mahayana an
intractable problem. Walser challenges commonly-held assumptions
about Mahayana Buddhism, offering a fascinating new take on its
genealogy that traces its doctrines of emptiness and mind-only from
the present day back to the time before Mahayana was "Mahayana." In
situating such concepts in their political and social contexts
across diverse regimes of power in Tibet, China and India, the book
shows that what was at stake in the Mahayana championing of the
doctrine of emptiness was the articulation and dissemination of
court authority across the rural landscapes of Asia. This text will
be will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students
and scholars of Buddhism, religious studies, history and
philosophy.
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