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Peter Schwieger (1996)
Stag-tshang Ras-pa's Exceptional Life as a Pilgrim
279 Priestley has written a fine book. His readable and lucid style leads us through the fragmented nature of the evidence in such as way as to present us with a clear and well-constructed ‘picture’ of what might well have been the Pudgalav ¯ adins’ worldview, concerns, problems, and debates with others. Demonstrating remarkable empathy with the material, and finely tuned to the nuances and subtleties of the Pudgalav ¯ adins’ potentially baffling stance, he suggests an eminently plausible and, in my opinion, convincing account of their understanding of the pudgala . This is a valu- able contribution to our understanding of early Buddhism and deserves to become widely consulted. My only quibble is that some key British work is not cited: for example, Richard Gombrich’s important article ‘Dating the Buddha: A Red Herring Revealed’ (in H. Bechert (ed.) The Dating of the Historical Buddha . Part 2. Göttingen: Vandendoeck & Ruprecht, 1992); and L.S. Cousins’ ‘Person and Self’ (in Buddhism into the Year 2000 , pp. 15–31, Bangkok: Dhammakaya Foundation, 1995). 1 NOTE 1 My own Early Buddhism: A New Approach (Richmond: Curzon, 2000) is also highly relevant, but probably came out just too late for this
Indo-Iranian Journal – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2001
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