[Buddha-l] Lamas and such

[James Ward]

Herman, thank you very much for the references.

And even if the concept is not very satisfactory, at least one can use 
it with the comfort of being in good company :-)

James Ward

> That might have been Akira Hirakawa. See his 'A History of Indian 
> Buddhism', (translated and edited by Paul Groner).
> In several places in that ambitious survey the term is used and 
> extensively discussed.
> Jan Nattier herself uses the term in her study 'A Few Good Men' which 
> sums up many results of the research into the early history of the 
> Mahayana, (very interesting). Nattier had professor Nagatomi as her 
> main teacher. Thurman even mentions Nagatomi as the originator of the 
> term, (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikaya_Buddhism ), but that 
> seems to be just his guess. Anyway, the term is apparently in use 
> among Japanese buddhologists.
> And yes, or no, the concept isn't very satisfactory either.
>
> Herman Zelders