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Power, wealth and women in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism :

This book presents the most detailed and theoretically sophisticated study of the important Mahayana Buddhist scripture Gandavyuha-sutra. The author puts forward a new approach to the study of Mahayana Buddhist sources, the ‘systems approach’, by which literature is viewed as embedded in a social sy...

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מחבר ראשי: Osto, Douglas
פורמט: Printed Book
יצא לאור: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
סדרה:Routledge critical studies in Buddhism
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סיכום:This book presents the most detailed and theoretically sophisticated study of the important Mahayana Buddhist scripture Gandavyuha-sutra. The author puts forward a new approach to the study of Mahayana Buddhist sources, the ‘systems approach’, by which literature is viewed as embedded in a social system and he analyses the key themes of power, wealth and women to its social context in ancient India.
תיאור פיזי:xv, 177 p. ;
ISBN:9781138744097