Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana: A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-Sutra

by Daniel Boucher

Bodhisattvas of the Forest delves into the socioreligious milieu of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra (Questions of Rastrapala), a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. In this meticulously researched study, Daniel Boucher first reflects upon the problems that plague historians of Mahayana Buddhism, whose previous efforts to comprehend the tradition have often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082482881X
• ISBN13: 9780824828813
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"