[Buddha-l] Where does authority for "true" Buddhism come from?

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 21:00 -0500, Richard Nance wrote:

> The issue may be more complicated than you think. You might want to
> have a look at Gregory Schopen's article "Two Problems in the History
> of Indian Buddhism" (reprinted in *Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks*,
> University of Hawai'i Press 1997, pp. 23-55). See especially section
> III.

Also worth reviewing (still) is Lamotte's Histoire du bouddhisme, which
has quite a lot on the formation of the canons and the differences among
them.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico