Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana : : A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra / / Daniel Boucher.
Bodhisattvas of the Forest delves into the socioreligious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. In this meticulously researched study, Daniel...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in the Buddhist Traditions
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I: Asceticism and the Glorification of the Buddha's Body: The Indian Text of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra
- Chapter One: The Physiognomy of Virtue
- Chapter Two: Former Life Narratives and the Bodhisattva Career
- Chapter Three: Wilderness Dwelling and the Ascetic Disciplines
- Chapter Four: "Profit and Honor": A Critique of Sedentary Monasticism
- Part II: Indian Buddhism through a Chinese Lens: Dharmarakṛa's Translation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra
- Chapter Five: The Role of Translation in Reconstructing the Early Mahāyāna
- Chapter Six: Mistranslation and Missed Translation
- Part III: An Annotated Translation of the Rāṣṭrapālaparipṛcchā-sūtra
- One: Prologue
- Two: The Story of Puṇyaraśmi
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index