History of Mahayana Buddhism: Innovation and Perfection

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We'll take a quick overview of the history of Mahāyāna Buddhism, beginning with its earliest developments and how it separated from the rest of mainstream Buddhism. Then we'll look at a few of its later developments that came to define the Mahāyāna approach. It's a huge topic so this video only can provide an introduction!

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Sutta mentioned:

Uttara on Failing (AN 8.8): https://suttacentral.net/an8.8/en/bodhi

Other references:

Anālayo, "The Genesis of the Bodhisattva Ideal": https://www.buddhismuskunde.uni-hamburg.de/pdf/5-personen/analayo/genesis-bodhisattva.pdf

Johannes Bronkhorst, Buddhist Teaching in India: https://amzn.to/2rKw4wo

Rupert Gethin, Foundations of Buddhism: https://amzn.to/2KswYER

Richard Gombrich “How the Mahāyāna Began” in Paul Williams Buddhism: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies (Routledge, 2005).

http://jayarava.blogspot.com/2015/07/early-mahayana-everything-you-know-is.html

Paul Williams, Mahāyāna Buddhism: The Doctrinal Foundations, 2nd Ed.: https://amzn.to/2wOB8VQ

Paul Williams, et al., Buddhist Thought: https://amzn.to/2GiCZ4w

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