The Buddhist schools of the Small Vehicle /

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Author / Creator:Bareau, André, author.
Uniform title:Sectes bouddhiques du Petit Véhicule. English
Imprint:Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press ; London : in association with the Buddhist Society Trust, 2013.
Description:xxviii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12704767
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Other authors / contributors:Boin-Webb, Sara, translator.
Skilton, Andrew, editor.
Buddhist Society (London, England)
ISBN:9780824835668
0824835662
Notes:"First published in French as Les sectes bouddhique du Petit Vehicule, 1955"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-452) and index.
Standard no.:40022617052
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André Bareau (1921-1993) was one of the foremost scholars of Buddhism of his generation. Dissatisfied with piecemeal and contradictory information on early Buddhist schools, he set out to construct a coherent and authoritative overview, which has remained the standard treatment in the field since its appearance in 1955. This book offers a close description and analysis of Bareau's findings on the history, geographical whereabouts, and doctrinal positions of early schools of Buddhism. He systematically presents data from a diverse array of sources: texts in canonical Buddhist languages (Pāli, Sanskrit, Tibetan, and Chinese), inscriptions, and accounts of Chinese pilgrims to India. The result is an encyclopedic resource on thirty-four schools of Indian Buddhism and the approximately five hundred doctrinal theses by which they are differentiated. Bareau's genius was to conceive a plan to draw on an exhaustive range of primary sources preserved in all the major Buddhist languages and to conduct a comprehensive synthetic analysis, thus creating an authoritative picture. He provides several appendices, including summary tables of all doctrinal points discussed.

Several additions have been made to this, the first English-language edition of the work to increase the effectiveness of the original volume: an index of names and places, a supplementary bibliography, and a short essay on Bareau's career and work. Complex diagrams have been redrawn, and the lengthy subject index table in Appendix 1 has been separated into separate tables to make the material more useable.

The Buddhist Schools of the Small Vehicle will be used by students and scholars as a primary resource and starting point for any discussion on the history and doctrines of early Buddhism and Buddhist schools. This seminal work is translated by Sara Boin-Webb, who across a career of four decades translated into English some of the most important French-language works of Buddhist scholarship.

Item Description:"First published in French as Les sectes bouddhique du Petit Vehicule, 1955"--Title page verso.
Physical Description:xxviii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-452) and index.
ISBN:9780824835668
0824835662