04227nam 2201009Ia 450 991078331500332120230831150925.097866123575890-520-93140-81-282-35758-11-59875-541-210.1525/9780520931404(CKB)1000000000030771(EBL)231925(OCoLC)475938377(SSID)ssj0000257532(PQKBManifestationID)11209793(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000257532(PQKBWorkID)10253459(PQKB)11354786(StDuBDS)EDZ0000084715(MiAaPQ)EBC231925(OCoLC)60407994(MdBmJHUP)muse30664(DE-B1597)520833(DE-B1597)9780520931404(Au-PeEL)EBL231925(CaPaEBR)ebr10079952(CaONFJC)MIL235758(OCoLC)936897784(EXLCZ)99100000000003077120050210d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierText as father paternal seductions in early Mahāyāna Buddhist literature /Alan ColeBerkeley ;Los Angeles University of California Press20051 online resource (371 pages)Buddhisms ;90-520-24276-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --Introduction --1. Text as Father --2. Who's Your Daddy Now? Reissued Paternity in the Lotus Sūtra --3. The Domino Effect: Everyone and His Brother Convert to the Lotus Sūtra --4. "Be All You Can't Be" and Other Gainful Losses in the Diamond Sūtra --5. Sameness with a Difference in the Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra --6. Vimalakīrti, or Why Bad Boys Finish First --Conclusion. A Cavalier Attitude toward Truth-Fathers --BIBLIOGRAPHY --INDEXThis 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.BuddhismsMahayana BuddhismSacred booksPaternalismReligious aspectsMahayana BuddhismMahayana BuddhismDoctrinesasian.buddhism.buddhist books.buddhist monk.buddhist studies.china.chinese buddhism.diamond sutra.eastern philosophy.eastern religion.lotus sutra.mahayana.meditation.mindfulness.monastic buddhism.monasticism.monk.nonfiction.philosophy.religion.spirituality.sutra studies.sutra.sutras.tathagatagarbha sutra.vimalakirti nirdesa.Mahayana BuddhismPaternalismReligious aspectsMahayana Buddhism.Mahayana BuddhismDoctrines.294.3/85Cole Alan1964-1249582MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783315003321Text as father3678648UNINA