INDEX 351 Aggañña Sutta, 85, 86n Allen, Woody, 25, 206n analogies, 208–9, 212–22, 225–26, 231– 32. See also metaphors Ananda: in the Lotus Sutra, 101; in the Vimalakirti, 264–65 Anderson, Benedict, 8n “anti-Buddha,” 259 antinomianism, 10–11, 32, 178, 241–42, 261–63, 276, 315, 323 anxiety, in Mahayana literature, 15, 26, 180– 82 arhats, 114, 122, 164 arrogance, 110–13 Aýoka, 45n, 77n Atanatiya Sutta, 42n authenticity, Buddhist, 2, 15, 160, 164, 199, 252, 262, 339–40 authorial ingenuity, 1–2, 5–6, 8–9, 14–15, 18, 29, 50, 53, 61–62, 71–73, 94, 97, 138–39, 154, 159, 182, 197, 228, 237– 38, 266, 269, 280, 282, 290–93, 323– 25, 327, 331, 333, 335–36, 339–41 authority: doubled, 4, 12, 192–94, 249, 343; in narrative, 1, 4, 9, 12, 25, 163–65, 242– 44, 248, 266–67, 316, 333; through negation , 183–87, 241, 319 “automatic dharma,” 233–34 bad faith, 340–45 Barnes, Nancy Schuster, 85n Baudrillard, Jean, 27n begging, 170 “being Buddhist about being Buddhist,” 164, 191, 261–62, 274, 330, 344 biographies, of the Buddha, 42, 77n, 93 Blake, William, 189 bodhisattvas, 118, 123–28, 161, 171–73, 175–78, 194, 202, 209–10, 224, 232– 33, 246, 266, 270, 278, 289–95, 298, 335, 338 body, 34, 224 book, containing tradition, 10–14, 20n, 82, 236, 260, 270, 280, 302, 305, 309. See also text Booth, Wayne, 170n, 175n Borges, Jorge Luis, 327, 345 Boucher, Daniel, 20n Bourdieu, Pierre, 22, 49 Brahmanism, 16, 44n Brooks, Peter, 9n, 48, 71n, 99n buddha, internal, 197–235 Buddha, the: as author, 245; presence of, 16, 31, 38, 181–82, 194, 208, 227–28; as straight man, 255–56, 316 Buddhacarita, 42n buddhahood, 9–93, 109, 169, 178–80, 210, 227–28, 251–52, 264, 266–68, 335–38; seed of, 121, 143–45, 168–69, 204–5 Buddha Kaýyapa, 77n, 78n buddhalands, 187–88, 232, 245, 289–91. See also pure lands buddha-nature, 141, 202, 215, 223–24 buddhas, twenty thousand, 61–73 Buddhavamsa, 42n, 77n, 78n Buddhist studies, xi, 3, 8–9, 36, 38–41, 50, 87, 162, 200, 238–39, 320, 324, 341 Burning House, parable of, 134–48, 271, 291, 339 caitya, 162, 189 Candrakirti, 331 capitalism, 11 chain letters, 27 chairs, in the Vimalakirti, 275–78 Chan, 12, 19–20, 22–23, 43, 163, 197, 201n, 207, 240, 226n, 320–21, 334 Christianity, 27–28, 190, 276, 342 Cohen, Richard, 38n, 49n Cole, Alan, 26n, 201n, 233n, 245n, 303n commentary, on sutras, 21–22 communism, 11 community, 119; imagined, 8; Mahayana, 3, 50, 189, 342 compassion, 2, 113, 166, 210, 281–82, 328, 334–40 consciousness, 229–30 conspiracy theory, 134–35, 141–43 content, 1, 9, 12, 172, 194, 240, 258, 283, 333; absence of, 168–69, 184–86, 260, 333, 336–38, 340 conversion, 4–6, 8, 31, 37, 49–50, 100– 103, 122–28, 142, 148–49, 160–61, 173, 248 Conze, Edward, 161n copying sutras, 11, 157, 166, 230, 320 cosmogony, 13 Costello, Elvis, 226n culture, 225–26, 229 desire, 66, 134, 139–46; in Buddhist literature , 4, 21–22, 32, 38–39, 106–7, 160, 166–67, 174, 179, 182, 192–94, 210, 221, 229, 235, 258, 265, 271, 287–88, 329, 333; for identity, 101–2, 107, 185, 201, 229 dharma offering, 304–11, 317, 319 dharma pleasure, 269 dialectics, of reading, 11–13, 36, 241 Diamond Sutra, 18, 21, 29, 31, 34, 160–96, 197, 227–28, 234, 327n, 329–33, 338, 341; compared to the Vimalakirti, 248– 50, 257, 261–63, 267–68, 281, 283, 318 Dipamkara, 65, 76–79, 132, 156, 167–69, 186–87, 267–68, 302, 314, 329, 337 Divyavadana, 77 Doherty, Gerald, 162n double vision of tradition, 214–15, 237, 244–49, 290–93, 298–99, 314 “drain-plug” model of subject, 176, 257–58, 286 Durt, Huburt, 94n, 166n “earth-moving” gesture in Vimalakirti, 295, 300 emptiness, 2, 36–37, 37n, 113–14, 122, 148, 165, 266–69, 275, 282, 328–29, 338; domesticated, 332; and patriarchy, 329–34 enlightenment, 2, 11, 40–41, 172, 339 equality, rhetoric of, 120, 200–1 Escher, M.C. (hands drawing hands), 54, 165 expedient means, 100, 105, 114, 122–23, 126, 132–39, 152, 217, 219–21, 324; levels of, 138–39, 141–42, 254–55, 290–91, 328, 338–40 faith, 110, 115–16, 122, 180–82, 192n...