Book: Cross Currents In Early Buddhism (S.N. Dube)

Textual analysis and comparative discussion on early Buddhist sects and scriptures.
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Book: Cross Currents In Early Buddhism (S.N. Dube)

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Hi,
I'm reading S.N. Dube's Cross Currents in Early Buddhism. He says what I consider to be some very astounding things. Has anyone read this book? Has it been challenged and/or improved upon? Would my time be better served reading something else, e.g., Sujato's Sects & Sectarianism, Andrew Skilton's A Concise History of Buddhism, Nalinaksha Dutt's Buddhist Sects in India, something else?
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The Kathāvatthu gives us the context for the debates between the early sects which gave rise to the emergence of so-called Mahāyāna. Dube has given an excellent study for navigating this literature.

For a review of this book:

Cross Currents in Early Buddhism, by S. N. Dube (Review – The Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies, Vol. 4, No. 1, 1981)
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Thanks AB. I'm really enjoying it and learning a lot from it.
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Hi,
I am more interested to know about the development of the Lotus sect.I'm not sure whether it is also called to be Pundarika sect.Will anyone help me out to know or find out whether Pundarika was a epithet used for venerable Bodhisattavas.If Lotus sect venerated Bodhisattavas ,which were they ? If anyone has a better piece of information please share with me .

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dharmarakshit wrote:Hi,
I am more interested to know about the development of the Lotus sect.I'm not sure whether it is also called to be Pundarika sect.Will anyone help me out to know or find out whether Pundarika was a epithet used for venerable Bodhisattavas.If Lotus sect venerated Bodhisattavas ,which were they ? If anyone has a better piece of information please share with me .

Thank you
You need to go here http://www.dharmawheel.net/ a Mahayana forum to ask that question.
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