Studies in the Buddhist Tritions; 1. Author Info：Jan Nattier is associate professor of Buddhist studies at Indiana University 2.Series Title：Studies in the Buddhist Tritions
關鍵詞
印度佛教史=Indian Buddhist History; 大乘佛教=漢傳佛教=北傳佛教=Mahayana Buddhism; 菩薩道=The Bodhisattva Path=The Bodhisatta Path; 僧團=叢林=Monastic Community=Buddhist Community
摘要
The Inquiry of Ugra is one of the most influential Mahayana sutras, preserved and transmitted in both India and China over many centuries and actively quoted in treatises on the bodhisattva path. It is one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism. Ugra appears to be one of the earliest bodhisattva scriptures to come down to us and as such it offers a particularly valuable window on the process by which the Bodhisattva path came to be seen as a Distinct vocational alternative within certain Indian Buddhist communities.
Combining a detailed critical study and translation of an important Buddhist scripture with a sweeping reexamination of the relationship between the Buddha and the practitioner of early Mahayana. The book will be compelling reading for scholars and practitioners alike and others interested in the history of Indian Buddhism and the formation of Mahayana.
