Speaking for Buddhas : : Scriptural Commentary in Indian Buddhism /

Speaking for Buddhas : : Scriptural Commentary in Indian Buddhism / / Richard Nance.

Buddhist intellectual discourse owes its development to a dynamic interplay between primary source materials and subsequent interpretation, yet scholarship on Indian Buddhism has long neglected to privilege one crucial series of texts. Commentaries on Buddhist scriptures, particularly the sutras, of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Nance, Richard,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.) :; 4 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • ONE. Models of Speaking: Buddhas and Monks
  • TWO. Models of Instruction: Preachers Perfect and Imperfect
  • THREE. Models of Argument: Epistemology and Interpretation
  • FOUR. Models of Explication: Commentarial Guides
  • Conclusion
  • APPENDIX A The Vyākhyāyukti , Book I
  • APPENDIX B. The Abhidharmasamuccayabhāṣya (Excerpt)
  • APPENDIX C. The * Vivaraṇasaṃgrahaṇī
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Texts
  • Index

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