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+---
+title: "Mahāyāna Sūtras in Recent Scholarship"
+authors:
+  - "David Drewes"
+external_url: "https://thecjbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/36-74_Drewes_Mahayana-Sutras.pdf"
+drive_links:
+  - "https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Kv4V2WjciYVlTEb-9Kq_h1CEumi_kt9K/view?usp=drivesdk"
+course: roots
+tags:
+  - mahayana
+year: 2021
+journal: cjbs
+volume: 16
+pages: "36--74"
+---
+
+> Rather than the texts of a distinct form of Buddhism, it is better to regard them as a controversial class of text that spread within pre-existing Buddhist institutional structures.
+
+> Some have argued that early sūtras show an orientation toward asceticm and meditation, but the texts rarely mention these practices.
+They mainly advocate practices oriented toward the supernatural and the afterlife, especially textual practices focused on Mahāyāna sūtras themselves.
+
+A quick debunking of some old theories about the early Mahāyāna.

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