{"product_id":"4746","title":"The Bodhisattva Ideal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book brings together six essays on the origin and history of the bodhisattva ideal and the emergence of the Mahāyana. The essays approach the subject from different perspectives from scholarly examinations of the terms in the Nikayas and Agamas to the relationship of the bodhisattva ideal and the arahant ideal within the broader context of the social environment in which Mahayana formed and further developments that lead to the formulation of the fully fledged bodhisattva path. As such, the collection provides a good overview for a wider Buddhist readership of the history of changes that eventually led to the emergence of the Mahayana.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Arahants, Buddhas and Bodhisattvas by Bhikkhu Bodhi\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Bodhisattva Ideal in Theravāda Theory and Practice by Jeffrey Samuels\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bodhi and Arahattaphala From Early Buddhism to Early Mahāyāna by Karel Werner\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Vaidalya, Mahāyāna, and Bodhisatva in India: An Essay Towards Historical Understanding by Peter Skilling\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e The Evolution of the Bodhisattva concept in Early Buddhist Canonical Literature by Bhikkhu Anālayo\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Orality, writing and authority in South Asian Buddhism: Visionary Literature and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Mahāyāna by David McMahan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e    ","brand":"Buddhist Publication Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42101578858590,"sku":"BPS:404625","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0591\/3677\/0142\/files\/404625_e8438d42-7788-4da8-9895-7dabfb637c14.jpg?v=1760548451","url":"https:\/\/store.pariyatti.org\/products\/4746","provider":"Pariyatti","version":"1.0","type":"link"}