The Bodhisattva Path Motilal Banarsidass and our research interests moved

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Telling Absences: What is not in the Ugra 171 The Term “Hinayana” 172 Bodhisattva Universalism 174 The Supermundane Buddha 176 The Rhetoric of Emptiness 179 The Cult of the Stupa 182 The Cult of the Book 184 Devotion to Celestial Buddhas 187 Devotion to Celestial Bodhisattvas 188 Conclusions: The Significance of Absence 190 8

the Sutras offer us a time-tested pathway to self-realization

The Bodhisattva Path Motilal Banarsidass and our research interests movedThe Inquiry of Ugra (Ugrapariprccha) 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, nevertheless, one of the most neglected texts in Western treatments of Buddhism. The 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