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Buddhism

Early Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism II: New Perspectives

By David Drewes, University of Manitoba (December 2009)


Sections: Buddhism

Subjects: Indian Traditions, Religion.

Places: Asia, Southern Asia, India.

Periods: 3500 BCE - 1 CE, 250 BCE - 1 CE, 1 - 999 CE.

Abstract

Part 1 of this article surveyed and appraised recent developments in the study of early Indian Mahāyāna. Part 2 continues by presenting a number of new perspectives on the nature of this movement, the practices it advocated, and the preachers, known as , that seem to have been its primary agents. An appendix discusses the use of terms such as Mahāyāna, Theravāda, Hīnayāna, and Mainstream Buddhism.

DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00193.x

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