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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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| Formato: | Printed Book |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2008.
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| Colecção: | Routledge critical studies in Buddhism
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| Resumo: | 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. |
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| Descrição Física: | xv, 177 p. ; |
| ISBN: | 9781138744097 |