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

Author: Daniel Boucher
Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, ©2008.
Series: Studies in the Buddhist traditions.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This volume delves into the socio religious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the 'Rāṣṭrapālaparipr̥cchā-sūtra' ('Questions of Rastrapala'), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium CE.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Daniel Boucher
ISBN: 9780824828813 082482881X
OCLC Number: 212410069
Language Note: Translated from the Sanskrit.
Description: xxiii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Studies in the Buddhist traditions.
Other Titles: Tripiṭaka.
Responsibility: Daniel Boucher.
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This volume delves into the socio religious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the 'Rāṣṭrapālaparipr̥cchā-sūtra' ('Questions of Rastrapala'), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium CE.

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