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Authority and Orality in the Mahāyāna

, 1995
The Mahāyāna sūtras, acknowledged by scholars to have been composed centuries after the death of the Buddha, almost invariably begin with the stock phrase, “thus did I hear,” thereby maintaining the conceit of orality. The paper explores the role of this
Lopez, Donald S.
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Tathatā: the creation of doctrinal foundation for Mahāyāna Buddhism

, 2019
Tathatā or suchness is one of the fundamental doctrinal concepts in Mahāyāna Buddhism and it was first introduced in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra, which is considered by almost all Buddhist scholars as the earliest Mahāyāna literature.
Guang, XA
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Crossing and Questioning Boundaries: Five Influential Books in Mahayana/East Asian Buddhism

Religious Studies Review, Volume 51, Issue 2, Page 333-336, June 2025.
Matthew Mitchell
wiley   +1 more source

Buddhist Perspectives on Death

RUDN Journal of Philosophy
The study deals with some of the central issues concerning the notion of death as discussed in Theravāda (Pāli Buddhism) as well as Mahāyāna Buddhism. What is the sense that death is regarded as an instance of duḥkha (Sanskrit) or dukkha (Pāli)?
Pradeep P. Gokhale
doaj   +1 more source

Beatrice Lane Suzuki (1875–1939)

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
Beatrice Lane Suzuki was the American born wife of renowned Zen scholar Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Until very recently, nothing beyond this had been written about her.
Judith Snodgrass
doaj  

Tekst og ritual i zen-buddhismen

Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 2001
Rituals and texts have had different and arbitrary status and roles within the different traditions and discourses of Buddhist teachings. In the open hermeneutics of Mahayana ideology they have both been negated and affirmed as a means of reaching and ...
Jørn Borup
doaj   +1 more source

The Origin and Development of the Buddha Akṣobhya,(Mi ’khrugs pa) [PDF]

This paper introduces the Buddha Akṣobhya (Tib. Mi ’khrugs pa), an eastern buddha who gained significance in early Mahāyāna Buddhism alongside Amitābha, the western buddha. Akṣobhya features prominently in the Akṣobhyavyūha.
佐藤, 直実, SATO, Naomi, サトウ, ナオミ   +2 more
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No-self and compassion: Nietzsche and Buddhism

, 2022
The article examines two claims made by Antoine Panaïoti: (1) That both Nietzsche and Buddhists denounce the self as a misleading fiction. (2) That Buddhist compassion is close to a ‘compassion of strength’ that Nietzsche approves.
Christopher Janaway, Janaway, Christopher   +1 more
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Reconfiguring Western Zen: Eco-Engagement in Japanese (American) Zen Buddhism—Case Studies of Zen Peacemakers Germany and Akazienzendo Berlin

Religions
This article examines how two contemporary Zen Buddhist communities in Germany—Zen Peacemakers Germany and Akazienzendo Berlin—engage in ecological activism through the lens of eco-Buddhism.
Hanyi Zhang, Ruotong Shi
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« Textual sources for Buddhism in Khotan », in : J. R. McRea and J. Nattier, eds., Collection of essays 1993: Buddhism across boundaries: Chinese Buddhism and the Western Regions. Sanchung, Fo Guang Shan Foundation for Buddhist and Culture Education, 1999, pp. 345-360. [PDF]

, 2010
A survey of the available Chinese and Khotanese sources on the history of Buddhism in Khotan. It is well known that a number of Chinese canonical texts were translated from Sanskrit by Khotanese scholars in China.
Maggi, Mauro
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