The Language of the Sutras: Essays in Honor of Luis Gómez

by Natalie Gummer, Bruno Galasek-Hul, David Fiordalis

This collection of essays in honor of the late Luis Gómez explores the narrative strategies of Buddhist sūtras and ways of reading them that reveal their transformative dimensions. By attending to the language of the sūtras and how they are told, the essays gathered in this volume open new fields of study for individual sūtras, while developing more general approaches to reading these texts. It should be of interest to all students of the Buddhist sūtras.

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Published December 21, 2021