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200 10$aText as father $epaternal seductions in early Maha?ya?na Buddhist  literature /$fAlan Cole
210   $aBerkeley ;$aLos Angeles $cUniversity of California Press$d2005
215   $a1 online resource (371 pages)
225 0 $aBuddhisms ;$v9
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tIntroduction --$t1. Text as Father --$t2. Who's Your Daddy Now? Reissued Paternity in the Lotus S?tra --$t3. The Domino Effect: Everyone and His Brother Convert to the Lotus S?tra --$t4. "Be All You Can't Be" and Other Gainful Losses in the Diamond S?tra --$t5. Sameness with a Difference in the Tath?gatagarbha S?tra --$t6. Vimalak?rti, or Why Bad Boys Finish First --$tConclusion. A Cavalier Attitude toward Truth-Fathers --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX
330   $aThis 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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