Text as Father Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature. Alan Cole
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Text as Father
Paternal Seductions in Early
Mahayana Buddhist Literature
Alan Cole
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments / xi
Introduction / 1
1. Text as Father / 25
2. Who’s Your Daddy Now? Reissued Paternity in the Lotus Sutra / 48
3. The Domino Effect: Everyone and His Brother Convert to the Lotus Sutra / 99
4. “Be All You Can’t Be” and Other Gainful Losses in the Diamond Sutra / 160
5. Sameness with a Difference in the Tathagatagarbha Sutra / 197
6. Vimalakirti, or Why Bad Boys Finish First / 236
Conclusion: A Cavalier Attitude toward Truth-Fathers / 327
Bibliography / 347
Index / 351
I write not as I speak, I speak not as I think, I think not as I
ought to think, and so it goes on into the deepest darkness.
Franz Kafka,
letter to his sister Ottla, July 10, 1914
I Am a Memory Come Alive
BUDDHISMS
Janet Gyatso, Charles Hallisey, Helen Hardacre, Robert Sharf, and Stephen Teiser, series editors *1. Becoming the Buddha: The Ritual of Image Consecration in Thailand, by Donald K. Swearer *2. The Impact of Buddhism on Chinese Material Culture, by John Kieschnick *3. The Power of Denial: Buddhism, Purity, and Gender, by Bernard Faure *4. Neither Monk nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism, by Richard Jaffe *5. Buddhist Learning and Textual Practice in Eighteenth-Century Lankan Monastic Culture, by Anne M. Blackburn *6. The Red Thread: Buddhist Approaches to Sexuality, by Bernard Faure *7. Relics of the Buddha, by John S. Strong *8. The Other Side of Zen: A Social History of Soto Zen Buddhism in Tokugawa Japan, by Duncan Ryuken Williams 9. Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature, by Alan Cole
*Available from Princeton University Press