Read along if you wish

I suspect few of my readers are all that interested in my slowly rambling interest in Buddhism, but as this blog now works pretty much as my journal where I can record (more-or-less) searchable notes of anything that interests me, I make this post anyway.

I've started on Charles B Jones' book Pure Land - History, Tradition and Practice, and I did find this pithy explanation of the origins of Mahayana Buddhism very clear and useful: 

I don't know that I have ever such a clear explanation before.  (Mind you, it's also possible that something similar was explained in one of the books on comparative religion I read in my 20's - I've always been interested in this topic...)