Text as Father : Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature
by
Alan Cole
Book Details
Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Buddhisms
ISBN-10
0520242769
ISBN-13
9780520242760
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 29th, 2005
Print length
372 Pages
Weight
678 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.70 x 3.20 cms
Product Classification:
Buddhism
Ksh 12,800.00
Werezi Extended Catalogue
Delivery in 28 days
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Delivery in 28 days
Secure
Quality
Fast
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 or doctrinal treatises, Alan Cole argues that these writings were carefully sculpted to undermine traditional monastic Buddhism and to gain legitimacy and authority for Mahayana Buddhism as it was veering away from Buddhism's older oral and institutional forms. His sophisticated and sustained analysis of the narrative structures and seductive literary strategies used in these sutras suggests that they were specifically written to encourage devotion to the written word instead of other forms of authority, be they human, institutional, or iconic.
Get Text as Father by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by University of California Press and it has pages.
