Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras
In this essay, I analyze the multilayered metaphors of sovereignty and sovereign ritual through which the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka and the Suvarṇa(pra)bhāsa, two Mahāyāna sūtras, represent and enact their own potency. I develop a theory of ritual-poetic speech acts and an interpretative methodology from t...
| Subtitles: | "History, Performativity, and Solidarity in the Study of Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
2021
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History of religions
Year: 2021, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 173-211 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra
/ Suvarṇaprabhāsa-sūtra
/ Buddha 563 BC-483 BC
/ Speech act
/ Ritual
/ Power
/ Dharma
/ Embodiment
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| IxTheo Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BL Buddhism |
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