Joseph Walser is Associate Professor of Religion at Tufts University, USA.
This book is a compelling argument to rethink the origins of Mahayana Buddhism. Approaching this perennial puzzle within Buddhist Studies from a different angle, tracing it from the present toward its genesis, Walser masterfully draws together material from a broad and complex cultural context to rethink the approach to understanding the earliest expressions of the idea of emptiness . Matthew Sayers, Lebanon Valley College Annville, USA