Chinese Buddhist Apocrypha: The Marga And Its Transformations In Buddhist Thought (Kuroda Institute studies in East Asian Buddhism)

"The study of apocryphal texts is probably the single most important task facing Chinese Buddhist studies today. This volume has done much to get it off on the right foot." --Journal of Asian Studies 50 (1991) "Few books of scholarly essays are this ambitious. The editor ... intends to introduce not just new studies, but a new field of study.... However, rather than marking the birth of Buddhist apocrypha studies, the book ... successfully demonstrates its early maturity." --Monumenta Serica 40 (1992) "The essays are without exception meticulous in scholarship and path-finding in significance." --Journal of Chinese Religions 20 (1992)

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824812530
• ISBN13: 9780824812539
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"