diff --git a/_content/articles/mahayana-sutras_drewes-david.md b/_content/articles/mahayana-sutras_drewes-david.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..feae9b3d95 --- /dev/null +++ b/_content/articles/mahayana-sutras_drewes-david.md @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +--- +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. diff --git a/highlights.html b/highlights.html index b31d31ab5e..3c7b27a4dd 100644 --- a/highlights.html +++ b/highlights.html @@ -32,41 +32,21 @@

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