000			00918nam a2200193 4500
020			_a9781138744097
082			_a294.385 _bOST/P
100	1		_aOsto, Douglas,
245	1	0	_aPower, wealth and women in Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism :
260			_aLondon ; _aNew York : _bRoutledge, _c2008.
300			_axv, 177 p. ;
490	1		_aRoutledge critical studies in Buddhism
520			_aThis book presents the most detailed and theoretically sophisticated study of the important Mahayana Buddhist scripture Gandavyuha-sutra. The author puts forward a new approach to the study of Mahayana Buddhist sources, the ‘systems approach’, by which literature is viewed as embedded in a social system and he analyses the key themes of power, wealth and women to its social context in ancient India.
650		0	_aAuthority
650		0	_aWealth
650		0	_aWomen in Buddhism
650		0	_aMahayana Buddhism
942			_cBK
999			_c59677 _d59677