This study is the first comprehensive examination of the figure of the Buddhist saint in a wide range of Indian Buddhist evidence. Drawing on an extensive variety of sources, author Reginald Ray identifies the prototypical Buddhist saint as a "renunciant of the forest." This classical type, he argues, informs the major Buddhist saintly types and subtypes, including the buddha, pratyekabuddha, arhant, and bodhisattva.
Buddhist Saints in India, Reginald Ray, Oxford University Press, Paperback, 508 pages, $29.95
Reginald A. Ray, Professor of Buddhist Studies and Cochair of the Religious Studies Department, Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado
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