@jayarava
Your mention of the Walser "Genealogy" book in your recent "The Cessation of Sensory..." sounded intriguing, so I looked at the description from the publisher. On seeing the subject matter, I snapped it up in a flash-- I've been looking for exactly this kind of thing on the origins of Mahayana for a long time. I had thought that Paul Williams' "Doctrinal Foundations" would have covered the history of the emergence of the school, but ha! fooled again. Looking forward to jumping into this one! Thanks for the happy happenstance. 😋