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Versatility, Angels and Space: The Meaning of Buddhist and Non-Buddhist Parallels

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2006

J. Duncan M. Derrett
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My purpose is twofold. We are to conjecture (a) how a preaching technique employed by St Paul comes to resonate with the Mahāyāna, and (b) that a conundrum in the solemn Mahānibbāna-sutta is Jewish, whence it reappears comically in Europe. Struck by these new oddities we ask at long last what can emerge from so many diverse parallels between Buddhist texts and their non-Buddhist counterparts. It is time those many threads were drawn together.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , November 2006 , pp. 231 - 242
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2006

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