Buddhism and Its Religious Others Historical Encounters and Representations

C.V. Jones, University of Cambridge

Christopher V. Jones is a research associate and affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, and a Bye-Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He has trained and taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and his research focuses on aspects of primarily Mah?y?na Buddhist
literature across Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan sources. He is the author of The Buddhist Self: On Tath?gatagarbha and ?tman (2021).

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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Buddhism and Its Religious Others, C.V. JONES
1. Buddhism, S??khya and the Brahmanical Avant-Garde, NATHAN MCGOVERN
2. 'The Buddha is a Raft.' On Metaphors, the Language of Liberation, and Religious Others in Early Buddhism, CLAIRE MAES
3. The Buddha as a Warrior: On Some Metaphors in Early (M?la)Sarv?stiv?da Literature, VINCENT ELTSCHINGER
4. Shepherds in Wolves' Clothing: bodhisattvas, t?rthikas and 'bodhisattva-t?rthikas', C.V. JONES
5. What do the Shameless Ones Nonsensically Profess? Genealogy of Buddhist-Jain Philosophical Dialogue, MARIE-HÉLÈNE GORISSE
6. Demons, Wicked Ones and Those who Violate the Samayas: Dharma against the Enemy in Tantric Buddhism, ALEKSANDRA WENTA
7. The Demonization of the Other through the Narrative of M?ra's Defeat (m?ravijaya), PERRY SCHMIDT-LEUKEL
8. The Origins of the Origin Debates: Buddhist Responses to Daoist Accounts of the Origins of Buddhism (5th-6th Centuries), STEPHEN R. BOKENKAMP
9. Outside the Way? Framing Non-Buddhist Practices in Heian Japan, BENEDETTA LOMI
10. Posthumous Conversions of Confucians: A Zen Case Study from Song China to Modern Japan, T.H. BARRETT
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