Tag: Lalitavistara Sūtra
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The goal of the paper is to ask both “what can we know about this figure?” and “how can we know it?” You therefore will be attempting to locate materials about the figure, sorting out what kinds of materials they are, and thinking through what they can tell us.
The essay is on queen maha Māyā of sakya — mother of the Buddha Gautama. The final product will be investigating the evidence in relation to a female figure from early Buddhism. The goal of the paper is to ask both “what can we know about this figure?” and “how can we know it?” You…