| Acknowledgements |
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| Transliteration Conventions |
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| Special Symbols |
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| Abbreviations |
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| PART 1 - BUDDHIST CONCEPTS OF HISTORY: AN OVERVIEW |
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The Death of the Dharma: Preliminary Considerations |
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3 | (4) |
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Frameworks of Buddhist Historical Thought |
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7 | (20) |
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10 | (9) |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (2) |
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The Cakkavatti-sihanada-suttanta |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (4) |
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19 | (5) |
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Seven Buddhas of the Past |
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19 | (2) |
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Twenty-five Buddhas of the Past |
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21 | (1) |
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Five Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa |
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21 | (2) |
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One Thousand Buddhas of the Bhadrakalpa |
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23 | (1) |
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Cosmos and Buddhology: Integrating the Systems |
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24 | (3) |
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The Timetables of Decline |
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27 | (38) |
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28 | (5) |
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``Five Hundred After-Years'' |
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33 | (4) |
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37 | (5) |
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42 | (6) |
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42 | (4) |
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46 | (2) |
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One Thousand Five Hundred Years |
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48 | (4) |
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52 | (2) |
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Two Thousand Five Hundred Years |
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54 | (2) |
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56 | (3) |
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Five Thousand One Hundred and Four Years |
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59 | (2) |
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Ten Thousand Years and Beyond |
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61 | (1) |
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Overview: The Evolution of Buddhist Timetables of Decline |
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62 | (3) |
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The East Asian Tripartite System: Cheng-fa, Hsiang-fa, and Mo-fa |
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65 | (54) |
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The True Dharma and Its Shadow: Saddharma and Saddharma-pratirupaka |
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66 | (24) |
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68 | (2) |
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70 | (2) |
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72 | (3) |
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75 | (3) |
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78 | (8) |
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Saddharma-pratirupaka: Toward a Usable Translation |
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86 | (4) |
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Mo-fa: The Age of the Final Dharma |
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90 | (29) |
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Sanskrit Counterparts of mo-fa |
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90 | (5) |
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Mo-fa and the Three-period System |
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95 | (6) |
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Mo-shih and Mo-fa: The Emergence of the ``Final Age'' |
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101 | (2) |
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The ``Latter Age'' in Indian Sources |
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103 | (7) |
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The Background of Mo-fa Thought: The Hephthalite Hypothesis |
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110 | (7) |
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Summary: The East Asian Origins of the Three-Period System |
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117 | (2) |
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Within and Without: The Causes of Decline |
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119 | (14) |
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Internal Causes: Laxity within the Sangha |
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120 | (6) |
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External Causes: Incursions from Without |
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126 | (4) |
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Type 1: Foreign Invasions |
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127 | (1) |
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127 | (1) |
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128 | (1) |
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Type 2: Excessive State Control |
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128 | (1) |
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128 | (2) |
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Within and Without: Patronage and its Side Effects |
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130 | (1) |
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Narrative and Prophecy: The Kausambi Story |
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131 | (2) |
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Conclusions: Time and History in Buddhist Consciousness |
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133 | (12) |
| PART 2 - CASE STUDY: THE KAUSAMBI PROPHECY |
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Versions of the Kausambi Story |
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145 | (63) |
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146 | (4) |
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150 | (7) |
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The Prophecy of Katyayana (verse) |
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157 | (8) |
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The Prophecy of Katyayana (prose) |
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165 | (3) |
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168 | (2) |
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The Candragarbha-sutra group |
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170 | (18) |
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Late Khotanese Adaptations |
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188 | (16) |
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Prophecy of the Arhat of Khotan |
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189 | (5) |
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Prophecy of the Arhat Samghavardhana |
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194 | (5) |
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The Religious Annals of Khotan |
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199 | (5) |
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Summary: Varieties of the Kausambi Prophecy |
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204 | (4) |
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Origins and Transmission of the Kausambi Prophecy |
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208 | (20) |
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Constructing a Stemma: Methodology |
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212 | (3) |
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Description of the Reconstructed Archetype and Hyparchetypes |
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215 | (4) |
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From Stemma to Story: Reconstructing the Original Kausambi Tale |
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219 | (5) |
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Sources of the Story: The Historical Setting |
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224 | (4) |
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The Tibetan Candragarbha-sutra: Text and Translation |
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228 | (50) |
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228 | (9) |
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229 | (2) |
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231 | (1) |
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231 | (2) |
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Relationship Among the Texts |
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233 | (1) |
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Editiorial Emendation in the Xylograph Editions |
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233 | (4) |
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English Translation of the Tibetan Text: Methodology |
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237 | (2) |
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Translation: The *Arya-candragarbha-pariprccha-sutra |
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239 | (12) |
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251 | (5) |
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256 | (22) |
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Conclusions: The Fate of the Kausambi Story |
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278 | (9) |
| Appendix: Proper Names in the Kausambi Story |
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287 | (9) |
| Bibliography |
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296 | (13) |
| Index |
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