Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature
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- Synopsis
- Offers innovative close readings of four early Buddhist Mahayana texts to highlight their narrative architecture and seductive strategies for convincing the reader to take these texts as the center of tradition in place of the institutional and ritual forms that constituted traditional Buddhism at the time (the beginning of the Common Era).
- Copyright:
- 2005
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 356 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780520242760
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- Date of Addition:
- 11/12/10
- Copyrighted By:
- The Regents of the University of California
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.