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

The book intends to understand the concept of upasaka / upasika or Buddhist laity in in Digha- and Majjhima-nikaya discourse of the Pali 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.