The Language of the Sutras Revelations of Mind Although constructed in Nepal

Although constructed in Nepal

Claudette Colvin

this text is important for students of the Nyingma tradition

In addition to a characteristically original essay by Gummer herself

Translated by Kenneth Douglas and Gwendolyn Bays from Toussaint's French

The Language of the Sutras Revelations of Mind Although constructed in NepalThe Language of the Stras explores the narrative strategies of Buddhist stras, as well as ways of reading them that reveal their transformative dimensions. By attending to the language of the stras and how they are told, the essays gathered in this volume open new fields of study for individual stras, while developing more general approaches to reading these texts for a scholarly audience. Edited by Natalie Gummer, whose own work on the performative