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Open access Sep 2026

Mastering Tradition: Desire and Overcoming in the Diamond Sūtra and the Gospel of Mark

This essay compares the Buddhist classic the Diamond Sūtra to the oldest Christian gospel, the Gospel of Mark, in order to argue that both texts work up complex “theaters of conversion” in order to encourage readers to discard previous convictions about tradition (Buddhist or Jewish/proto-Christian) so as to take the t...

Alan Cole · 0 citations

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