Status Updates From The Buddhist Religion: A Hi...

…tradition developed on Indian soil, the patterns of rituals came to eclipse the gods in importance, as the belief developed that the gods had no choice but to obey that was properly performed

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I was in the library trying to grab the Diamond and Heart Sutras, but my hold didn't show up for another day. Grabbed this instead, which is as critical-historical as you can possibly get (but apologetic about it). Not much direct quotation from source texts, more big-picture paraph. But as broad background to situate primary texts, exactly the level of detail I wanted, and some very pithy bits too.