Nagarjuna in Context Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture

Name: Nagarjuna in Context Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture
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ISBN: 9780231131643

ISBN-10: 023113164X

ISBN-13: 9780231131643

Edition: 2004

Authors: Joseph Walser, Sanchez Walsh, sanchez walsh

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Nagarjuna, one of India's greatest philosophers, is the most influential thinker in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition. While his philosophy has been the subject of numerous studies and translations, Joseph Walser provides the first examination of Nagarjuna's life and writings within the social, religious, and institutional contexts of the early history of Buddhism. Walser locates Nagarjuna's second-century writings at a critical juncture in the development and spread of Mahayana Buddhism. At this time, Mahayanist writings and teachings were regarded with great suspicion, and its followers were subject to legal censure. Walser explores how Nagarjuna's writings, including his most famous…

Book details

List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 5/11/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.93" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Locating Mahayana



Locating Nagarjuna



Mahayana and the Constraints of Monastic Law



Mahayana Sutras as Monastic Property



On the Parasitic Strategies of Mahayana



Abhidharma and Sectarian Identity



Nagarjuna and the Abhidharma Conclusion: Toward the Outline of a Career


Appendix: The Authorship of the Ratnava


Notes


Bibliography