In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, Powers adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been...

In this groundbreaking study of previously unexplored aspects of the early Buddhist tradition, Powers adapts methodological approaches from European and North American historiography to the study of early Buddhist literature, art, and iconography, highlighting aspects of the tradition that have been surprisingly invisible in earlier scholarship.