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THE FUTURE OF THE BUDDHIST PAST: A RESPONSE TO THE READERS
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2010-12)
I respond to comments offered by Peter Harrison and Thupten Jinpa on my book Buddhism and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed (2008). I report briefly on the reception of the book thus far and provide a summary of its ...
Authority and Orality in the Mahāyāna
(Brill Academic Publishers; by E. J. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-01)
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 ...