Aspects of Mahayana Buddhism and its Relation to Hinayana c5.s1.6
Aspects of Mahāyāna Buddhism and its Relation to Hīnayāna c5.s1.6
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c5.s1.6
As early as 1911, Prof. Winternitz in his learned review of the translations of the Dīgha Nikāya in the J.R.A.S. raised this point of the Nikāyas being a mosaic of materials, early and late. He analysed the Mahāparinibbāna-sutta and the Mahāpadāna-sutta, and showed the various strata contained in them. Prof. Bapat does not seem to have noticed this review as otherwise he could have seen many other means of testing the different strata. These matters, however, are still far from a complete solution.
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- Mahāparinibbānasutta — Pāli
- Mahāpadānasutta — Pāli
- Dīghanikāya — Pāli