By Leslie Kawamura
This volume represents a collection of papers presented at the Calgary Buddhism Conference held in September 1978 at the University of Calgary, Canada. The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism is an especially valuable addition to the literature, not only because it has been more than fifty years since Har Dayal’s classic study on this topic was first published, but also because the current volume tries to incorporate the most current research in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources by leading scholars in the field of Buddhist studies. The work should raise some questions on how to reorganize our understanding of this Buddhist doctrine, and the sophistication and somewhat specialized focus of some essays also leads to a heightened sense of expectation, particularly in light of the present inadequate range of translations and historical and philosophical studies on Buddhism as a whole in Western languages.
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