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Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature
Alan Cole
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Description for Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature
Hardback. Series: Buddhisms S. Num Pages: 369 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 161 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 678.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
369
Condition
New
Series
Buddhisms S.
Number of Pages
372
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520242760
SKU
V9780520242760
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About Alan Cole
Alan Cole, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Lewis & Clark College, is author of Mothers and Sons in Chinese Buddhism (1998).
Reviews for Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature
"An important and rewarding work that merits the attention of any serious scholar or student of Buddhist literature." H-Net Reviews