Setting Out on the Great Way - by Paul M Harrison (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Setting Out on the Great Way brings together different perspectives on the origins and early history of Mahāyāna Buddhism and delves into selected aspects of its formative period.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Setting Out on the Great Way</i> brings together different perspectives on the origins and early history of Mahayana Buddhism and delves into selected aspects of its formative period. As the variety of the religion which conquered East Asia and also provided the matrix for the later development of Buddhist Tantra or Vajrayana, Mahayana is regarded as one of the most significant forms of Buddhism, and its beginnings have long been the focus of intense scholarly attention and debate. The essays in this volume address the latest findings in the field, including contributions by younger researchers vigorously critiquing the reappraisal of the Mahayana carried out by scholars in the last decades of the 20th century and the different understanding of the movement which they produced. As the study of Buddhism as a whole reorients itself to embrace new methods and paradigms, while at the same time coming to terms with exciting new manuscript discoveries, our picture of the Mahayana continues to change. This volume presents the latest developments in this ongoing re-evaluation of one of Buddhism's most important historical expressions.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The collection Setting out on the Great Way: Essays on Early Mahayana Buddhism, a memorial to the important contributions of Sarah Webb-Boin to the field of Buddhist studies, brings together not simply important critiques of the established views, but also new perspectives and new areas of inquiry. The collection demonstrates that there is more to be learned about the early history of Mahayana than the established theories had indicated." --Richard K. Payne, Reading Religion<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Paul Harrison is the George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
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