[Buddha-l] A really good & provocative book

[Christopher Fynn]

jkirk wrote:

> Speaking of the cooky Mahayana sutras, y'all have GOT to get this book--I
> got it via ILL--it's a fantastically good critique of 4 Mahayana sutras as
> literature, of their rhetorical hankypanky--I am so impressed:

> Alan Cole. _Text As Father : Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist
> Literature_. UCPress, 2005.  He takes on the Lotus, the Tathagata, the
> Diamond, and Vimalakirti's Nirdesa. [how they got rid of the old Buddha and
> made a new one: the texts! + their tricks of the trade] 

Interesting that these four are all sutras popular in China - is his critique
of the Chinese versions or translations of the Chinese versions?

- Chris