McMaster University

DigitalCommons@McMaster
Open Access Dissertations and Theses Open Dissertations and Theses

7-1-1975

Three Studies in Non-Tantric Buddhist Cult Forms

Gregory Schopen

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

This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Dissertations and Theses at DigitalCommons@McMaster. It has been accepted for inclusion in Open Access Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@McMaster. For more information, please contact scom@mcmaster.ca.

MASTER OF ARTS (1975) (Religious Sciences) TITLE: AUTHOR:

.- !

McMASTER UNIVERSITY Hamilton, Ontario

Three Studies in Non-Tantric Buddhist Cult Forms Gregory Schopen, B.A. (Black Hills State College)

SUPERVISOR: .Professor Jsn Yun-hua

,
NUMBER OF PAGES: viii,. 203

)'
~ttempts

SCOPE AND CONTENTS:. This thesis

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:

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

non-tancric puja.

The first part deals

involved in future research. in the area.

".

11