The Language of the Sutras Revelations of Mind Masters of the Nyingma Lineage

Masters of the Nyingma Lineage presents biographical summaries of more than 350 Nyingma masters who are authors in the Great Treasures collection

Matricheta's Letter to the Great King Kanishka written in his old age to a young ruler who will become the greatest of the Kusana kings

Claudette Colvin

for when they fly away

The Language of the Sutras Revelations of Mind Masters of the Nyingma LineageThe Language of the Stras explores the narrative strategies of Buddhist stras, as well as ways of reading them that reveal their transformative dimensions. By attending to the language of the stras and how they are told, the essays gathered in this volume open new fields of study for individual stras, while developing more general approaches to reading these texts for a scholarly audience. Edited by Natalie Gummer, whose own work on the performative