La formation du Mahāvastu et la mise en place des conceptions relatives à la carrière du bodhisattva
- Submitting institution
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School of Oriental and African Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 31 - Theology and Religious Studies
- Output identifier
- 24151
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- A - Authored book
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- Publisher
- École française d’Extrême-Orient
- ISBN
- 9782855391335
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- This book, at over 650 pages, was the product of over a decade of research. It aims at tracing the “buddhological” developments within the literature of the Mahāsāṅghika-Lokottaravāda. This historical enquiry involved scrutiny of the school's Vinayapiṭaka, namely the Mahāvastu, a vast and composite work. The reconstruction of distinct phases in its composition entailed a close examination of the witnesses transmitting the work and, in particular, of its earliest copy, a 12th century CE palm-leaf manuscript preserved in Nepal.. This book therefore contributes to furthering our understanding of the monastic lineages, the canonical corpora, and the soteriology of Indian Buddhism.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
- Speculations about buddhas and bodhisattvas flourished with a remarkable dynamism between the 1st and the 6th century CE. The present book aims at tracing these “buddhological” developments within the literature of the Mahāsāṅghika-Lokottaravāda, a lineage that was influential in Magadha and in the Northwest of South Asia during the period considered. This historical enquiry is rooted in a philological praxis, and, in particular, it is achieved by scrutinising the formation and the vicissitudes of an integral part of the school's Vinayapiṭaka, namely the Mahāvastu.