Studies in the Buddhist Traditions
Published with the Institute for the Study of Buddhist Traditions, University of Michigan

"Unquestionably the freshest, most exciting scholarship to have emerged in the field in half a century." --Buddhist Studies Review

In these articles, Gregory Schopen once again displays the erudition and originality that have contributed to a major shift in the way that Indian Buddhism is perceived, understood, and studied.

Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India: More Collected Papers, Gregory Schopen, Universty of Hawaii Press, Paperback, 2005, 392 Pages, $27.00

Gregory Schopen is professor of Indian and Buddhist studies and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.

Acknowledgments and Other Things

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I. The Mahayana and the Middle Period in Indian Buddhism: Through a Chinese Looking-Glass

II. The Phrase sa prthivipradesas caityabhuto bhavet in the Vajracchedika: Notes on the Cult of the Book in Mahayana

III. The Bones of a Buddha and the Business of a Monk: Conservative Monastic Values in an Early Mahayana Polemical Tract

IV. On Sending the Monks Back to Their Books: Cult and Conservatism in Early Mahayana Buddhism

V. Sukhavati as a Generalized Religious Goal in Sanskrit Mahayana Sètra Literature

VI. The Generalization of an Old Yogic Attainment in Medieval Mahayana Sutra Literature: Some Notes on Jatismara

FRAGMENTS

VII. Mahayana in Indian Inscriptions

VIII. The Inscription on the Kusan Image of Amitabha and the Character of the Early Mahayana in India

IX. The Ambiguity of Avalokitesvara and the Tentative Identification of a Painted Scene from a Mahayana Sutra at Ajanta

X. A Verse from the Bhadracaripranidhana in a Tenth-Century Inscription Found at Nalanda

XI. The Text on the “Dharani Stones from Abhayagiriya”: A Minor Contribution to the Study of Mahayana Literature in Ceylon

XII. The Bodhigarbbalankaralaksa and Vimalosnisa Dharanis in Indian Inscriptions: Two Sources for the Practice of Buddhism in Medieval India

XIII. A Note on the “Technology of Prayer” and a Reference to a Revolving Bookcase in an Eleventh-Century Indian Inscription

XIV. Stupa and Tirtha: Tibetan Mortuary Practices and an Unrecognized Form of Burial Ad Sanctos at Buddhist Sites in India

Index of Archaeological Sites and Findspots for Inscriptions

Index of Texts

Index of Subjects