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Few Good Men: The Bodhisattva Path according to The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugrapariprccha)
By: Nattier

Few Good Men


 
Our Price: $30.00
Author: Jan Nattier
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0824826078 / 9780824826079
Publication Date: 2003


Product Code: 12174
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A Few Good Men is a study and translation of The Inquiry of Ugra (Ugrapariprccha), one of the most influential Mahayana sutras on the bodhisattva path, but also one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism. To achieve a better understanding of the universe of ideas, activities, and institutional structures within which early self-proclaimed bodhisattvas lived, the author first considers the Ugra as a literary document, employing new methodological tools to examine the genre to which it belongs, the age of its extant versions, and their relationships to one another. She goes on to challenge the dominant notions that the Mahayana emerged as a "reform" of earlier Buddhism and offered lay people an "easier option."


A Few Good Men, Jan Nattier, University of Hawai'i Press, Hardcover, 380 pp., $30.00

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