The Legend and Cult of Upagupta : : Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia / / John S. Strong.
The Buddhist monk Upagupta, who preached and taught meditative practices in Northwest India over two thousand years ago, is venerated today by the laity in parts of Burma, Thailand, and Laos as a protective figure endowed with magical powers. In this monumental work John Strong offers a systematic p...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2017] ©1992 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (408 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Note and Abbreviations
- Introduction
- PART ONE. Upagupta in India
- CHAPTER ONE. Provisions for the Buddha's Absence
- CHAPTER TWO. Monk and Monkey: Upagupta's Karmic Past
- CHAPTER THREE. Birth and Lineage, Patriarchs, and the Forest-Monk Tradition
- CHAPTER FOUR. Lay Life, Ordination, and Arhatship
- CHAPTER FIVE. Upagupta and Mara: Bhakti and the Buddha Body
- CHAPTER SIX. Master-Disciple Relations
- CHAPTER SEVEN. Upagupta and Ásoka
- PART TWO. Upagupta in Southeast Asia
- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Southeast Asian Context: Upagupta and Theravada Orthodoxy
- CHAPTER NINE. The Lokapaññatti Legend
- CHAPTER TEN. Mythic Elaborations and Ritual Developments
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Upagupta and the Arhat Cults
- CHAPTER TWELVE. Communal Cults: Upagupta as Protector of Festivals
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. Personal Rewards and Domestic Rites
- Conspectus and Conclusion
- Notes
- Glossary
- Bibliography of Works Cited
- Index