Rationality and Mind in Early Buddhism Motilal Banarsidass Renunicant Life 74 Lay Bodhisattvas

Renunicant Life 74 Lay Bodhisattvas 75 Monastic Bodhisattvas 79 Bodhisattvas and Sravakas in the Buddhist Sangha 84 Hirakawa’s theory of the lay origins of the Mahayana 89 Ray’s theory of the forest origins of the Mahayana 93 Gender Issues 96 Conclusions: Bodhisattvas in Their Nikaya Contexts 100 5

spirit possession and how pujas are performed by priests for their clients

to pay due attention to the literary qualities of the Kavya

The Samkhya and Yoga Schools 487 7

a person indulgent in heretical arguments

Rationality and Mind in Early Buddhism Motilal Banarsidass Renunicant Life 74 Lay BodhisattvasHere is a study of rationality and mind based on the earliest recorded stratum of Buddhism, the Pali Nikayas. The author makes a distinction between what can be said from within the context of the Buddhist texts themselves and what can be spoken of from the point of view of contemporary philosophy of religion. The author is at once sympathetic to Early Buddhism as a system of religious belief and attentive to its philosophical difficulties. The volume