Searching for the Origins of the Mahāyana:
What Are We Looking for?

By Paul Harrison

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A religion’s power lies in its symbols, and those symbols are by their very nature not reducible to a set of propositions, or a body of doctrines

Published in 1995 in The Eastern Buddhist.

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    title={{S}earching for the {O}rigins of the {M}ahāyana: {W}hat {A}re {W}e {L}ooking for?},
    author={Paul Harrison},
    address={Kyoto},
    year=1995,
    journal={The Eastern Buddhist},
    volume=28,
    number=1,
    pages={48--69},
    keywords={mahayana-roots,historiography},
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    url={https://otani.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/8622/files/EB28-1-06.pdf}
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