DESCRIPTION

PART ONE: THE IRON STUPA

Nāgārjuna and the Iron Stupa

PART TWO: VAIROCANA SUTRAS

The Mahāvairocana Sūtra & Vajraśekhara Sūtra

PART THREE: TRUE WORDS

The Śūraṅgama Sūtra and other ‘apocrypha’

NeverEnding Device: Mantras as performative [Buddha] speech acts - ‘True Words’

SUGGESTED READING

📖 Ryūichi Abé, The Weaving of Mantra: Kūkai and the Construction of Esoteric Buddhist Discourse (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999)