¿Non-Monastic Buddhist¿ in Pali-Discourse - Religious Experience and Religiosity in Relation to the Monastic Order

The book intends to understand the concept of upāsaka / upāsikā or Buddhist laity in in Dīgha- and Majjhima-nikāya discourse of the Pāli canon. Considered as oral literature, the meaning of the structure and stock phrases constructing the narrative is examined and interpreted from a theory of religious experience.