Bodhisattvas: Forest Formation in Mahayana

This product is a book titled “Questions of Rastrapala: Buddhist Literature and Social History” by Daniel Boucher. It explores the socio-religious context of the authors, editors, and propagators of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra, a Buddhist text circulating in India during the first half of the first millennium C.E. The book addresses the previous neglect of the social dynamics that motivated the innovations of Mahayana Buddhism. It also analyzes various motifs in the Indian text and examines the significance of the earliest Chinese translation in understanding the evolution of the sutra. Additionally, the book includes an annotated translation of the sutra based on a new reading of its earliest Sanskrit manuscript.