Buddhist Saints in India: A Study in Buddhist Values and OrientationsThe issue of saints is a difficult and complicated problem in Buddhology. In this magisterial work, Ray offers the first comprehensive examination of the figure of the Buddhist saint in a wide range of Indian Buddhist evidence. Drawing on an extensive variety of sources, Ray seeks to identify the "classical type" of the Buddhist saint, as it provides the presupposition for, and informs, the different major Buddhist saintly types and subtypes. Discussing the nature, dynamics, and history of Buddhist hagiography, he surveys the ascetic codes, conventions and traditions of Buddhist saints, and the cults both of living saints and of those who have "passed beyond." Ray traces the role of the saints in Indian Buddhist history, examining the beginnings of Buddhism and the origin of Mahayana Buddhism. |
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Contents
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The Buddhist Saints and the TwoTiered Model of Buddhism | 15 |
Some Ideological Features of the TwoTiered Model | 23 |
Buddha Sakyamuni as a Saint | 44 |
Buddha Sakyamunis Life as Paradigm | 47 |
Some Historical Considerations | 61 |
Saints of the Theragatha and Therigdlha | 79 |
Prerealization | 80 |
Conclusion | 269 |
The Minor Rastrapalapariprccha Sutra on Forest Bhiksus | 275 |
Ascetic Traditions of Buddhist Saints | 293 |
Two Pali Depictions of the Dhutagunas | 298 |
Some Other Groups of Dhutagunas | 307 |
Conclusion | 314 |
The Buddhist Saints and the Stupa | 324 |
Some Aspects of Stupa Symbolism | 325 |
Postrealization | 89 |
Conclusion | 96 |
Some Orthodox Saints in Buddhism | 105 |
Upagupta | 118 |
Sariputra | 131 |
Conclusion | 136 |
Saints Criticized and Condemned | 151 |
Devadatta | 162 |
Cults of Arhants | 179 |
The Chinese Pilgrims on the Cult of Arhants | 187 |
Conclusion | 197 |
The Solitary Saint the Pratyekabuddha | 213 |
Images of Pratyekabuddhas | 214 |
Some Questions of Interpretation | 232 |
Bodhisattva Saints of the Forest in Mahayana Sutras | 251 |
Santideva on the Bodhisattva as Forest Renunciant | 252 |
The Bodhisattva in the Ratnagunasamcayaguthd | 255 |
The Bodhisattva of the Forest in the Rastrapdlapariprccha Sutra | 260 |
The Samdhinirmocana Sutra on the Bodhisattva as Saint | 266 |
The Stupa Cult | 329 |
Participants in the Stupa Cult | 337 |
Modalities and Parallels of the Stupa | 344 |
Conclusion | 348 |
The Cult of Saints and Buddhist Doctrines of Absence and Presence | 358 |
A Doctrine of Presence or Immanence among the Buddhist Saints | 367 |
Conclusion | 381 |
The Buddhist Saints and the Process of Monasticization | 396 |
The Origins of Buddhist Monasticism Reconsidered | 397 |
The Origins of the Mahayana and the Process of Monasticization | 404 |
A Forest Response to the Process of Monasticization | 417 |
Some Limitations of Webers Model of Early Buddhism | 421 |
Toward a Threefold Model of Buddhism | 433 |
Three Kinds of Actors in Buddhist History | 434 |
Some Dynamics of the Threefold Model | 438 |
Bibliography | 448 |
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