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Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism: Emptiness, Power and the Question of Origin

Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism: Emptiness, Power and the Question of Origin

Walser, Joseph

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Buddhism

ISBN10: 1138955558
ISBN13: 9781138955554
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 26 2018
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism offers a solution to a problem that some have called the holy grail of Buddhist studies: the problem of the origins of Mahāyāna Buddhism. In a work that contributes both to a general theory of religion and power for religious studies as well as to the problem of the origin of a Buddhist movement, Walser argues that that it is the neglect of political and social power in the scholarly imagination of the history of Buddhism that has made the origins of Mahāyāna an intractable problem. Walser challenges commonly-held assumptions about Mahāyāna Buddhism, offering a fascinating new take on its genealogy that traces its doctrines of emptiness and mind-only from the present day back to the time before Mahāyāna was Mahāyāna. In situating such concepts in their political and social contexts across diverse regimes of power in Tibet, China and India, the book shows that what was at stake in the Mahāyāna championing of the doctrine of emptiness was the articulation and dissemination of court authority across the rural landscapes of Asia.

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