Alexander Studholme

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Alexander Studholme

Alexander Studholme received his Ph.D. from the Centre for Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol, England. He is the author of The Origins of Oṃ Maṇipadme Hūṃ: A Study of the Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra (SUNY Press, 2002), a study of the earliest textual source for the mantra oṃ maṇipadme hūṃ, which situates the Kāraṇḍavyūha Sūtra in relation to Purāṇic and Śaivite religious currents in early medieval India. He has lectured on Indian religions in the Divinity Faculty at Cambridge University.

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Sūtra - Sūtras mainly refer to the discourses delivered by the Buddha and his disciples, and the Sūtra corpus is one of the three main sets of teachings which form the Buddhist canon. Skt सूत्र  Tib མདོ།  Ch 佛经  

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