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The present volume has numerous solutions of these problems by the senior author Alex Wayman. The entire collection of eassys is devoted to issues that concern present-day scholars of Buddhism in particular, but also specialist of Indian philosophy and religion in general.
The field of non-Tantric Buddhism still has many problems and debated issues. The present volumes included numerous solutions of these problems by the senior author Alex Wayman. The categories of the Twenty-four essays are Heroes of the system, Theory of the Heroes, Buddhist Doctrine, Buddhist Practice and hindu Buddhist Studies. Among these essays are one of his earliest from the late 1950`s.
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BUDDHIST TRADITION SERIES Edited by
ALEX WAYMAN
Editorial Advisory Board
J.W. DEJONG
KATSUMI MIMAKI CHR. LINDTNER MICHAEL HAHN LOKESH CHANDRA ERNST STEINKELLNER
VOLUME28
Untying the Knots in Buddhism SELECTED ESSAYS
ALEx WAYMAN
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Foreword
The series editor is happy to present these essays in the same series whose quality standard had the good omen of starting with Professor Hajime Nakamura's bibliographical survey Indian Buddhism. Since then the series has maintained a general excellence. Readers of the preceding work of my essays Buddhist Insight (ed. by George R. Elder) should appreciate the present collection as a companion volume. The attentive peruser of the present essays may notice that they are more devoted to solving basic problems of Buddhism, even with a restrained type of contention. Scholars who had held that Prof. Wayman's contributions are mainly in the field of Tantra should be surprised to find these numerous well-argued essays in non-tantric Buddhism. They illustrate the range of the author's interests. New York City
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Preface
There are two kinds of articles in the present work-ones previously published, and ones not previously published. In the latter group, there are those prepared for special purposes, and those composed especially for the present work. A. Ar.icles previously published
May I thank jointly the various editors and organizations, etc. who or which have given permission for reprinting various articles in the present volume. Especially must I thank Mariasusai Davamony, editor of the annual periodical Studia Missionalia in Rome for the numerous invitations to contribute essays, and permission to reprint certain ones for this volume, namely (with their dates of original publication): "Sakyamuni, Founder of Buddhism" (1984), "Nagarjuna, Reformer of Buddhism" (1985), "Vasubandhu, Teacher Extraordinary" (1988), "The Guru in Buddhism" 0987), "The Buddhist meaning of death" 0982), 'The Position of Women in Buddhism"' (1991). Indian Books Centre, Delhi, India for permission to reprint "'Doctrinal Affiliation of Asailga," from the Professor P.V. Bapat Felicitation Volume, Amala Prajiia; Aspects of Buddhist Studies (1989), pp. 201-21. V.C. Srivastava, Dept. of Ancient Indian History, Culture