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Taylor & Francis Power Wealth and Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism The Gandavyuha-sutra by Douglas Osto
This 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.