The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom Motilal Banarsidass This split creates a lacuna

This split creates a lacuna into which the living Buddhist religious professionals who put the teachings found in the texts into effect in the lives of the laity disappear

8: The Bhagavadgita with the Sanatsujatiya and the Anugita

Preface This book had its beginnings in a set of graded readings and grammatical notes that the authors began to assemble and discuss a number of years ago

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The manuscript evidence is consistent in presenting a very late date for the text and does not allow us to establish a stemma for the manuscripts of which there is a very large number

The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom Motilal Banarsidass This split creates a lacunaSome two thousand years ago Buddhism experienced a major reformation through a movement called the Mahayana, or "Great Vehicle," which dominated religious thought in much of Asia for many centuries and still exerts considerable influence. The basic Mahayana texts were sermons ascribed to the Buddha, called "sutras" in Sanskrit. The earliest and most influential of these Mahayana sutras had the "perfection of wisdom" as its main subject matter. Of