Studies in the Buddhist traditions. 

xix, 380 pages : 25 cm; The Mahāyāna and the middle period in Indian Buddhism: through a Chinese looking-glass -- The phrase sa pṛthivīpreśaś caityabbūto bhavet in the Vajracchedikā: notes on the cult of the book in Mahāyāna -- The bones of a Buddha and the business of a monk: conservative monastic values in an early Mahāyāna polemical tract -- On sending the monks back to their books: cult and conservatism in early Mahāyāna Buddhism -- Sukhāvatī as a generalized religious goal in Sanskrit Mahāyāna Sūtra literature -- The generalization of an old yogic attainment in medieval Mahāyāna Sūtra literature: some notes on Jātismara -- Mahāyāna in Indian inscriptions -- The inscription on the Kuṣān image of Amitābha and the character of the early Mahāyāna in India -- The ambiguity of Avalokiteśvara and the tentative identification of a painted scene from a Mahāyāna Sūtra at Ajaṇṭā -- A verse from the Bhadracaripraṇidhāna in a tenth-century inscription found at Nālandā -- The text on the "Dhāraṇī stones from Abhayagiriya": a minor contributions to the study of Mahāyāna literature in Ceylon -- The Bodhigarbhālainkāralakṣa and Vimaloṣṇīṣa Dhāraṇīs in Indian inscriptions: two sources for the practice of Buddhism in Medieval India -- A note on the "Technology of Prayer" and a reference to a revolving bookcase in an eleventh-century Indian inscription -- Stūpa and Tīrtha: Tibetan mortuary practices and an unrecognized form of burial Ad Sanctos at Buddhist sites in India.; 

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