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Article: Pudgalavada Buddhism: The Reality of the Indeterminate Self.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- April 1, 2003
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Pudgalavada Buddhism: The Reality of the Indeterminate Self. By LEONARD C. D. C. PRIESTLEY. South Asian Studies Papers, no. 12; monograph no. 1. Toronto: CENTRE FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, 1999. Pp. 255. $40 (cloth); $25 (paper).
In this book an attempt is made to reconstruct the Pudgalavada Buddhist theory of persons as it is represented in the Chinese translations of the Sammitiyanikaya Sastra (Sanmidibu lun) and the Tridharmakhandaka (Sanfadu lun) and in later Buddhist works in which the doctrines of the Pudgalavadins are summarized and criticized. It contains an introduction, followed by twelve chapters, a separate statement of a general conclusion, a ...