Text as Father : Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature

Name: Text as Father
Brand: University of California Press
SKU: 9780520242760
Price: 12800 KES
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ISBN: 9780520242760

by Alan Cole

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Format Hardback

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

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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.

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