Zhang Huan Buddha

Abstract Retellings of the Buddha’s life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through roughly 2,500 years of history. To this day, Buddhis...

This book focuses on the imagery and roles of nonhuman animals in premodern South Asian Buddhist literature. Part I examines the animal realm of rebirth in Buddhist doctrine and co...

This chapter argues that Buddhaghosa understood the Vinaya as demonstrating the unfolding nature of the Buddha’s omniscient ken because it shows how he was able to anticipate the f...