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Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature (Buddhisms)
Alan Cole
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| #2840093 in Books | 2005-08-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.21 x.77 x6.14l,1.43 | File type: PDF | 369 pages||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Amazing at it is. Can we have a non-patriarchal Buddhism please?|By David Cole|Fun discussion of some of the more obvious clues in the Lotus Sutra and other Mahayana that the sutras were literary devices, to reinstate an active Buddhism. I think it needs to further consider the fallen state of Buddhism at that time and how Buddhism had declined in favor of middle period upan||
“An important and rewarding work that merits the attention of any serious scholar or student of 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 or doctrinal treatises, Alan Cole argues that these writings were carefully sculpted to undermine traditional monastic Buddhism and to gain legitimacy and authori...
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