The Language of the Sutras Revelations of Mind Matricheta's Letter to the Great

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

Stephen Hawking brings us closer to the ultimate secrets at the very heart of creation

Since these patterns can inhibit understanding

Translated by Kenneth Douglas and Gwendolyn Bays from Toussaint's French

we can catch a glimpse of our own beauty reflected within

The Language of the Sutras Revelations of Mind Matricheta's Letter to the GreatThe 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