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"C. V. Jones' landmark work deals with Buddhist ātmavāda, which was regarded as ""taboo"" by authentic Buddhist traditions yet furnished a bridge between Buddhists and non-Buddhist doctrines. His solid philological and philosophical study sheds new light on this ambivalent attitude in Mahāyāna Buddhism and proposes insightful solutions to puzzles at pivotal turning points in the history of Buddhism in India during the first half of the first millennium.--Kazuo Kano, Komazawa University This rich book breaks new ground in the study of tathāgatagarbha doctrine, a major strand of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Wielding an impressive command over a difficult primary literature in three classical languages, C. V. Jones argues cogently for nothing short of a revised chronology of the core corpus of tathāgatagarbha scriptures and of the thought it contains. He also adopts a heuristic focus on the scandalous claim that tathāgatagarbha can rightly be understood as a type of true ""self"" (ātman). Jones thus confronts head-on aspects of the doctrine most controversial in both Buddhist traditions and modern scholarship alike, and uses this problematic as a window through which to gain a fresh perspective on relations between Buddhism and other bodies of Indian religious thought and literature. His book will surely take a place as one of a handful of principal studies of this dimension of Buddhism.--Michael Radich, Heidelberg University"

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C. V. Jones is an affiliated lecturer of the Divinity Faculty and Bye-Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge.

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