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<p>This book examines the concepts of power, wealth and women in the important Mahayana Buddhist scripture known as the Gandavyuha-sutra, and relates these to the text’s social context in ancient Indian during the Buddhist Middle Period (0–500 CE).</p><p></p><p>Employing contemporary textual theory, worldview analysis and structural narrative theory, the author puts forward a new approach to the study of Mahayana Buddhist sources, the ‘systems approach’, by which literature is viewed as embedded

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Author

Douglas Osto

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138744097

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Science, Philosophy, History

Updated

2026-03-25