]> 2026-10-09T04:33:21-04:00 Books/Text as Father 0 en No Cole, A. Secondary Sources <div class="d-flex align-items-center justify-content-start position-relative text-article p-2 clearfix"> <div class="mr-3" style="width: 70px !important; height: 70px !important;">START_WIDGET"'-8523b6065c9d66e6END_WIDGET</div> <div>[[People/Cole,_A.|Alan Cole]]</div>START_WIDGET"'-aa82ef9d8cf86f67END_WIDGET </div> ** <span> Acknowledgments</span><span>xi</span> ** <span> Introduction</span><span>1</span> * <span> 1. Text as Father</span><span>25</span> * <span> 2. Who's Your Daddy Now? Reissued Paternity in the ''Lotus Sūtra''</span><span>48</span> * <span> 3. The Domino Effect: Everyone and His Brother Convert to the ''Lotus Sūtra''</span><span>99</span> * <span> 4. "Be All You Can’t Be" and Other Gainful Losses in the ''Diamond Sūtra''</span><span>160</span> * <span> 5. Sameness with a Difference in the ''Tathāgatagarbha Sūtra''</span><span>197</span> * <span> 6. Vimalakīrti, or Why Bad Boys Finish First</span><span>236</span> ** Conclusion: A Cavalier Attitude ** <span> Toward Truth-Fathers</span><span>327</span> ** <span> Bibliography</span><span>347</span> ** <span> Index</span><span>351</span> Academic true IV false Advanced Book Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature Cole, Alan. ''Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. 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. (Source: [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242760/text-as-father University of California Press]) false Text as Father Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature Cole, Alan. ''Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.;Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature;Christian thought and Buddha-Nature;Alan Cole;Text as Father Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature false Text as Father-front.jpg Cole, A. Alan Cole Needs Copy Editing 2005 Academic Publications 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. (Source: [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520242760/text-as-father University of California Press]) Text as Father;Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature;Text as Father Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature Text as Father;Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature;Text as Father Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature 2019-06-05T19:49:14Z 2458640.3258565 2020-11-05T18:53:38Z 2459159.2872454 false Text as Father 0 0 template 2 [[Category:Book Excerpts]] [[Category:Text as Father||Books/Text as Father]] Text as Father# QUERYf76280d3c3aba13edf81ccb152c70d27 0 0 plainlist 1 [[:People/Cole, A.]] Text as Father# QUERYc563fbe3119642a8894325f03fcbafe6 0 0 plainlist 1 [[:Cole, A.]] Text as Father# QUERY3eb3969caa967f2e367c51198f7e0b05 0 0 plainlist 1 [[:Christian thought and Buddha-Nature]] Text as Father# QUERY4cb840999b05725722d4015db623b739 0 Alan Cole Text as Father# bea6c84149ede09aecc698e0f83e6295 Text as Father Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature 0 en Text as Father Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature REDI 102 en REDI