Natalie Gummer

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Natalie Gummer

Natalie Gummer (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Beloit College. A literary and cultural historian of Buddhism, she studies the intersection of textual practices with ritual, aesthetics, and ethics in premodern Mahāyāna Buddhist literary cultures. She is co-editor of Defining Buddhism(s): A Reader, and is the author of several articles on Buddhist literary culture. She is currently working on a study of textual techniques of transformation in Mahāyāna sūtras, and a translation of the Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra (The Sūtra of Utmost Golden Radiance). (Source Accessed Apr 14, 2022)

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Mahāyāna - Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of the Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. Skt महायान  Tib ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོ།  Ch 大乘  

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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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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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