Text as Father : Paternal Seductions in Early Mahyana Buddhist Literature.

Text as Father : Paternal Seductions in Early Mahyana Buddhist Literature.

This beautifully written work sheds new light on the origins and nature of Mahayana Buddhism with close readings of four well-known texts--the Lotus Sutra, Diamond Sutra, Tathagatagarbha Sutra, and Vimalakirtinirdesa. Treating these sutras as literary works rather than as straightforward philosophic...

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Main Author: Cole, Alan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2001.
Series:Buddhisms.
Subjects:
Mahayana Buddhism > Sacred books.
Paternalism > Religious aspects > Mahayana Buddhism.
Mahayana Buddhism > Doctrines.
Mahayana Buddhism
Mahayana Buddhism > Doctrines
Sacred books
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Text as Father; 2. Who's Your Daddy Now? Reissued Paternity in the Lotus Sutra; 3. The Domino Effect: Everyone and His Brother Convert to the Lotus Sutra; 4. "Be All You Can't Be" and Other Gainful Losses inthe Diamond Sutra; 5. Sameness with a Difference in the Tathagatagarbha Sutra; 6. Vimalakirti, or Why Bad Boys Finish First; Conclusion: A Cavalier Attitude toward Truth-Fathers; Bibliography; Index.

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