Daniel Boucher

Daniel Boucher is an associate professor of Sino-Indian Buddhism at Cornell University. He specializes in the study of early Mahayana traditions with particular interests in the use of early Chinese translations for the study of Indian Buddhism, Gandharan Buddhism and the recent early manuscript discoveries from that region, and sociological and literary critical methods for understanding the emergence of Mahayana literature and the authorial communities that produced and circulated it. He is the author of Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana: A Study and Translation of the Rastrapalapariprccha-sutra.