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Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Defining Buddhisms 1 Part I: Defining Buddhist Histories Defining Buddhist Histories: Introduction 26 1 Gregory Schopen 40 Archaeology and Protestant Presuppositions in the Study of Indian Buddhism 2 Jonathan S. Walters 79 Suttas as History: Four Approaches to the Sermon on the Noble Quest (Ariyapariyesanasutta) 3 Dale S. Wright 147 Historical Understanding: The Ch'an Buddhist Transmission Narratives and Modern Historiography 4 Charles Hallisey 166 Roads Taken and Not Taken in the Study of Therav?da Buddhism Part II: Defining Buddhist Ideologies Defining Buddhist Ideologies: Introduction 215 5 Mark Edward Lewis 230 The Suppression of the Three Stages Sect: Apocrypha as a Political Issue 6 Judith Snodgrass 285 Budda no fukuin: The Deployment of Paul Carus's Gospel of Buddha in Meiji Japan 7 David Germano 325 Re-membering the Dismembered Body of Tibet: Contemporary Tibetan Visionary Movements in the People's Republic of China Part III: Defining Buddhist Identities Defining Buddhist Identities: Introduction 399 8 Anne Hansen 414 The Image of an Orphan: Cambodian Narrative Sites for Buddhist Ethical Reflection 9 Richard M. Jaffe 460 Seeking ??kyamuni: Travel and the Reconstruction of Japanese Buddhism 10 Janet Gyatso 507 One Plus One Makes Three: Buddhist Gender, Monasticism, and the Law of the Non-Excluded Middle Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Buddhism.
Buddhism -- Historiography.
Buddhism -- Doctrines -- History.
Identity (Psychology) -- Religious aspects -- Buddhism.