Nagarjuna in Context: Mahayana Buddhism and Early Indian Culture

Joseph Walser

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May, 2005
Cloth, 368 pages, 2 maps
ISBN: 978-0-231-13164-3
$60.00 / £41.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Locating Mahayana

2. Locating Nagarjuna

3. Mahayana and the Constraints of Monastic Law

4. Mahayana Sutras as Monastic Property

5. On the Parasitic Strategies of Mahayana

6. Abhidharma and Sectarian Identity

7. Nagarjuna and the Abhidharma

Conclusion: Toward the Outline of a Career

Appendix: The Authorship of the Ratnava

Notes

Bibliography

Related Subjects

• Asian History
• Asian Religion

About the Author

Joseph Walser is associate professor and department chair of comparative religion at Tufts University.

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