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Early Explanations for the Appearance of Mahāyāna sūtras (Oxford Treasure Seminar Series)

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Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar
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A presentation looking at how early Mahayana sutras explain where they came from.
This presentation argues that the authors of these texts shared a general understanding that the Buddha revealed them to advanced bodhisattvas during his lifetime and appointed them with the task of returning to the world five hundred years later to reveal and spread them. It also considers the ideas that these texts were revealed in meditation or dreams, and that they were revealed by the pratibhāṇa, or inspired speech, of śrāvakas.

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Series
Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar
People
David Drewes
Keywords
Mahāyāna sutras
Indian Buddhism
indian literature
Department: Faculty of Oriental Studies
Date Added: 08/06/2022
Duration: 00:42:26

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