Text as father : paternal seductions in early Mahayana Buddhist literature / / Alan Cole

• Autore: Cole Alan <1964->
• Pubblicazione: Berkeley ; ; Los Angels, : University of California Press, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (371 pages)
• Disciplina: 294.3/85
• Soggetto topico: Mahayana Buddhism; Paternalism - Religious aspects - Mahayana Buddhism; Mahayana Buddhism - Doctrines
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Text as father
• ISBN: 9786612357589; 0-520-93140-8; 1-282-35758-1; 1-59875-541-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820276803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Buddhisms