| A Less Traveled Path: Saddharmasmrtyupasthanansutra Chapter 2: Critically Edited with a Study on Its Structure and Significance for the Deve Contributor(s): Stuart, Daniel M. (Author), Steinkellner, Ernst (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3700177631 ISBN-13: 9783700177630 Publisher: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press OUR PRICE: $145.53 Product Type: Paperback Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Buddhist - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) |
| Series: Sanskrit Texts Fromt the Tibetan Autonomous Region |
| Physical Information: 2.4" H x 6.4" W x 9.4" (3.50 lbs) 642 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Less Traveled Path brings to light unique textual evidence of an important transitional moment in Indian Buddhism. This book includes a critical edition and translation of the second chapter of a third- or fourth-century Buddhist Sanskrit text, the Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra, which sheds light on the so-called "Middle Period" of Indian Buddhism. In his introduction, Stuart argues that meditative practice, rhetoric, and philosophy were intimately tied to one another when the Saddharmasmrtyupasthanasutra was redacted, and that it serves as an important historical touchstone for understanding the development of Buddhist mind-centered metaphysics. This development is historically significant because it marks a major shift in Indian Buddhist religious practice, which conditioned the emergence of fully developed Mahayana path schemes and power-oriented tantric ritual traditions in the centuries that followed the text's compilation. |