Self-Referential Passages in Mahāyāna Sutra Literature
By Alexander James O'Niell
17 pagesself-referential passages functioned as self-promotion strategies suited to the employment of the emerging medium of the manuscript
these devices come to be constitutive of Mahāyāna doctrine, as it is argued the Mahāyāna sutra texts themselves are constitutive of the Buddha’s true body.