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Setting Out on the Great Way - Essays on Early Mahayana Buddhism (Hardcover)
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Setting Out on the Great Way - Essays on Early Mahayana Buddhism (Hardcover)
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Setting Out on the Great Way brings together different perspectives
on the origins and early history of Mahayana Buddhism and delves
into selected aspects of its formative period. As the variety of
the religion which conquered East Asia and also provided the matrix
for the later development of Buddhist Tantra or Vajrayana, Mahayana
is regarded as one of the most significant forms of Buddhism, and
its beginnings have long been the focus of intense scholarly
attention and debate. The essays in this volume address the latest
findings in the field, including contributions by younger
researchers vigorously critiquing the reappraisal of the Mahayana
carried out by scholars in the last decades of the 20th century and
the different understanding of the movement which they produced. As
the study of Buddhism as a whole reorients itself to embrace new
methods and paradigms, while at the same time coming to terms with
exciting new manuscript discoveries, our picture of the Mahayana
continues to change. This volume presents the latest developments
in this ongoing re-evaluation of one of Buddhism's most important
historical expressions.
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