The Idea of the Historical Buddha
This paper discusses and reevaluates the idea of the historical Buddha. Focusing on a survey of nineteenth and twentieth-century scholarship, it argues that the Buddha’s historicity was never actually established and that he cannot properly be regarded as a historical figure.
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Peeters Publishers
2017
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Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies
Year: 2017, Volume: 40, Pages: 1-25 |
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