Gregory Schopen is professor of Indian and Buddhist studies and chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments and Other Things
Abbreviations
FIGMENTS
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
S�tra 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