Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism: Emptiness, Po, Walser..

Name: Genealogies of Mahayana Buddhism: Emptiness, Po, Walser..
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Genealogies of Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism offers a solution to a problem that some have called the holy grail of Buddhist studies: the problem of the \u201Corigins\u201D of Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism. In a work that contributes both to a general theory of religion and power for religious studies as well as to the problem of the origin of a Buddhist movement, Walser argues that that it is the neglect of political and social power in the scholarly imagination of the history of Buddhism that has made the origins of Mah\u0101y\u0101na an intractable problem. Walser challenges commonly-held assumptions about Mah\u0101y\u0101na Buddhism, offering a fascinating new take on its genealogy that traces its doctrines of emptiness and mind-only from the present day back to the time before Mah\u0101y\u0101na was \u201CMah\u0101y\u0101na.\u201D In situating such concepts in their political and social contexts across diverse regimes of power in Tibet, China and India, the book shows that what was .