Early Indian Inscriptions and the Schismatic Buddhism

The Mahâyâna and the Middle Period in Indian Buddhism

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Filial Piety in Early Buddhism

Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later, John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism, but he asserted that it was “a Buddhist compromise with the Brāhmanical ethics of filiality operating at the popular level.” On the other hand, Gregory Schopen, who mainly...

Taking the Enemy as Medicine: Dialectic and Therapy in the Work of Two Early Indian Doxographers

This article discusses the function of dialectic in religious history, focusing on the works of two major sixth century Indian intellectuals and doxographers Bhāviveka and Haribhadra Sūri, who belonged to the competing Madhyamaka Buddhist and Jaina traditions respectively. The article studies how these two figures used medical metaphors for their dialectic purposes.

Finding history: the locational geography of Ashokan inscriptions in the Indian subcontinent

Antiquity / Volume 90 / Issue 350 / April 2016, pp 376 392 DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.6, Published online: 06 April 2016 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S0003598X16000065 How to cite this article: Monica L. Smith, Thomas W. Gillespie, Scott Barron and Kanika Kalra (2016). Finding history: the locational geography of Ashokan inscriptions in the Indian subcontinent. Antiq...

The Provocative Character of the “Mystical” Discourses on the Absolute Body in Indian Tantric Buddhism