Setting Out on the Great Way

Paul Harrison is the George Edwin Burnell Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University.

• 1. Sara Boin-Webb, Translator of Buddhist Texts (1937–2008)Russell Webb2. Early Mahāyāna: Laying Out the FieldPaul Harrison3. How the Unborn was Born: The Riddle of Mahāyāna OriginsPeter Skilling, École Française d’Extrême-Orient, Bangkok4. The Forest HypothesisDavid Drewes, University of Manitoba5. Recruitment and Retention in Early Bodhisattva SodalitiesDaniel Boucher, Cornell University6. Abhidharma in Early MahāyānaJohannes Bronkhorst, University of Lausanne7. The Concept of `Remodelling the World’Shizuka Sasaki, Hanazono University8. Altered States and the Origins of the MahāyānaDouglas Osto, Massey University9. Early Mahāyāna in Gandhāra: New Evidence from the Bajaur Mahāyāna SūtraIngo Strauch, University of Lausanne10. Looking for Mahāyāna Bodhisattvas: A Reflection on Visual Evidence in Early Indian BuddhismJuhyung Rhi,Seoul National University