Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India

Gregory Schopen is Rush C. Hawkins Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University and Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to his international appointments, Schopen has served on the faculties of Indiana University, Bloomington, and the University of Texas, Austin. His publications include Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks (1997), Buddhist Monks and Business Matters (2004), and Figments and Fragments of Mahayana Buddhism in India (2005), all published by the University of Hawai'i Press.

Unquestionably the freshest, most exciting scholarship to have emerged in the field in half a century. [Schopen] is amazingly prolific, unfailingly interesting, enrichingly edifying and, more often than not, completely convincing.... He seeks to do for Buddhist studies what Marx did to Hegel: to stand it on its head." - Buddhist Studies Review