Discontented Categories: Hīnayāna and Mahāyāna in Indian Buddhist History
RS Cohen - Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1995 - JSTOR
RS Cohen
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, 1995•JSTORS" THE SON OF a barren woman:" this is a Tibetan commonplace for an impossible figment
of an observer's imagination, something utterly non-existent. Perhaps adoption was not
common within Tibetan culture; it is a part of ours. In the historical study of religions, nothing
is quite so common as a barren woman's son: a fact or category appropriated and nurtured
in a new discursive home.
of an observer's imagination, something utterly non-existent. Perhaps adoption was not
common within Tibetan culture; it is a part of ours. In the historical study of religions, nothing
is quite so common as a barren woman's son: a fact or category appropriated and nurtured
in a new discursive home.
S" THE SON OF a barren woman:" this is a Tibetan commonplace for an impossible figment of an observer's imagination, something utterly non-existent. Perhaps adoption was not common within Tibetan culture; it is a part of ours. In the historical study of religions, nothing is quite so common as a barren woman's son: a fact or category appropriated and nurtured in a new discursive home.
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