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This work is a critical study of sibylline lore in Buddhism based on a survey of the Yogadhyaya. It breaks new ground by explaining for the first time over three hundred mystical terms in Buddhist literature and their literally miraculous sibylline import within that literature; its extensive examples trace such miracles and mystical elements from the time of the Buddha’s birth in the sixth century B.C. to the tenth century A.D., when Buddhism had shed its ...
This companion volume to Dr. Satadal Kargupta’s Mystical Buddhism From A Sibylline Perspective finds him shifting his focus away from the preternatural knowledge that found its way into Buddhist literature. Here, he concentrates on how the seeds of this knowledge germinated in ancient India in the first place, so that they had already blossomed into fully-realized traditions of prophecy, ritual, and thought by the time of the sixth century B.C. coming of the ...