Title: Ideal Types in Indian Buddhism: A New Paradigm
Abstract: Reginald Ray's Buddhist Saints in India provides not only a welcome addition to scholarly studies on Buddhist hagiography, but also a bold new paradigmatic model concerning the role of the various ideal types in Indian Buddhist history. In so doing, Ray challenges the traditional accepted two-tiered model of Buddhism, which divided Buddhist Practioners into a monastic samgha and a conglomerate of lay members. In its place he offers a threefold model, in which forest renunciants function alongside, and in addition to, the monastic and lay Buddhist communities. It is in its investigation of the role of the forest renunciants in the development of Indian Buddhist history that the book makes a brilliant contribution to a proper understanding of Indian Buddhism
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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