orality-writing-and-authority_mcmahan-david.md

title	authors	file_links	source_url	drive_links	course	tags	year	month	journal	publisher	address	volume	number	pages
Orality, writing and authority in South Asian Buddhism: Visionary Literature and the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Mahāyāna	mcmahan-david	exclusive_01/Orality%2C%20writing%20and%20authority%20in%20South%20Asian%20Buddhism_%20Visionary%20Literature%20and%20the%20Struggle%20for%20Legitimacy%20in%20the%20Mah%C4%81y%C4%81na%20-%20David%20McMahan.pdf	https://www.bps.lk/library-search-select.php?id=bp625s	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QZl1HY01DL-3oCHuR2mIhChrLReZZwzW/view?usp=drivesdk	mahayana	mahayana-canon mahayana-roots sects media	1998	feb	History of Religions	University of Chicago Press	Chicago, IL	37	3	249--274

Literacy disrupted the continuity of the oral tradition and reoriented access to knowledge from the oral- and aural-sense world to the visual world.

How the emerging Mahāyāna movement in India capitalized on new technology (writing) to legitimate and spread their teachings, and how the new medium shaped them in turn.