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Three Studies in Non-Tantric Buddhist CultFormsGregory Schopen

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Recommended CitationSchopen, Gregory, "Three Studies in Non-Tantric Buddhist Cult Forms" (1975). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 2582.http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/2582

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MASTER OF ARTS (1975)(Religious Sciences)

McMASTER UNIVERSITYHamilton, Ontario

TITLE: Three Studies in Non-Tantric Buddhist Cult Forms

AUTHOR: Gregory Schopen, B.A. (Black Hills State College)

viii,. 203,

NUMBER OF PAGES:

SUPERVISOR: .Professor Jsn Yun-hua

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SCOPE AND CONTENTS:. This thesis ~ttempts to present three separate

but related bodies of material which might contribute towards the

eventual establishment of a new basic descriptive category in' the

field of Buddhist Studies: non-tancric puja. The first part deals,

with a previously unncknowleaged form of the relic-cult; the second,

with an equally unacknowledged cult of the book; the third with the

image-eult. A.fourth part indicates a few problematic factors

involved in future research. in the area.

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