Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha
qThe study of apocryphal texts is probably the single most important task facing Chinese Buddhist studies today. This volume has done much to get it off on the right foot.q --Journal of Asian Studies 50 (1991) qFew books of scholarly essays are this ambitious. The editor ... intends to introduce not just new studies, but a new field of study.... However, rather than marking the birth of Buddhist apocrypha studies, the book ... successfully demonstrates its early maturity.q --Monumenta Serica 40 (1992) qThe essays are without exception meticulous in scholarship and path-finding in significance.q --Journal of Chinese Religions 20 (1992)Louis Dumont, Homo Hierarchicus: An Essay ... The Sanskrit is: prabhdsvaramidam attain prakrtydgantavo malah. ... from Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York: Praeger , 1966), 160- 161.
| Title | : | Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha |
| Author | : | Robert E. Buswell |
| Publisher | : | University of Hawaii Press - 1990 |
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