Rationality and Mind in Early Buddhism Motilal Banarsidass for a grant Provided by

for a grant Provided by the University

Renunicant Life 74 Lay Bodhisattvas 75 Monastic Bodhisattvas 79 Bodhisattvas and Sravakas in the Buddhist Sangha 84 Hirakawa’s theory of the lay origins of the Mahayana 89 Ray’s theory of the forest origins of the Mahayana 93 Gender Issues 96 Conclusions: Bodhisattvas in Their Nikaya Contexts 100 5

in such an environment I went through this training morning noon

and from 2015 onwards by Dr Mikko Viitamaki)

Rationality and Mind in Early Buddhism Motilal Banarsidass for a grant Provided byHere is a study of rationality and mind based on the earliest recorded stratum of Buddhism, the Pali Nikayas. The author makes a distinction between what can be said from within the context of the Buddhist texts themselves and what can be spoken of from the point of view of contemporary philosophy of religion. The author is at once sympathetic to Early Buddhism as a system of religious belief and attentive to its philosophical difficulties. The volume