Ryan Richard Overbey is Associate Professor in Buddhist Studies at Skidmore College. He is the coeditor, with Michelle C. Wang, of Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Problem of Preachers 1. Speaking the Preacher into Being: The Dhāraṇī 2. The ABCs of Emptiness: The Great Lamp's Buddhist Abecedary 3. The Preacher's Rhetoric 4. Evoking the Buddha 5. The Prototantric Preacher? Concluding Thoughts Appendix A: Outline of the Great Lamp of the Dharma Dhāraṇī Scripture Appendix B: Translation of Chapter 13 Appendix C: Translation of Chapter 20 Appendix D: Translation of Chapter 37 Appendix E: Translation of Chapter 39 Appendix F: Translation of Chapter 52 Notes References Index

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Ryan Richard Overbey is Associate Professor in Buddhist Studies at Skidmore College. He is the coeditor, with Michelle C. Wang, of Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Problem of Preachers 1. Speaking the Preacher into Being: The Dhāraṇī 2. The ABCs of Emptiness: The Great Lamp's Buddhist Abecedary 3. The Preacher's Rhetoric 4. Evoking the Buddha 5. The Prototantric Preacher? Concluding Thoughts Appendix A: Outline of the Great Lamp of the Dharma Dhāraṇī Scripture Appendix B: Translation of Chapter 13 Appendix C: Translation of Chapter 20 Appendix D: Translation of Chapter 37 Appendix E: Translation of Chapter 39 Appendix F: Translation of Chapter 52 Notes References Index

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Ryan Richard Overbey is Associate Professor in Buddhist Studies at Skidmore College. He is the coeditor, with Michelle C. Wang, of Beyond the Silk and Book Roads: Rethinking Networks of Exchange and Material Culture.

• Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: The Problem of Preachers 1. Speaking the Preacher into Being: The Dhāraṇī 2. The ABCs of Emptiness: The Great Lamp's Buddhist Abecedary 3. The Preacher's Rhetoric 4. Evoking the Buddha 5. The Prototantric Preacher? Concluding Thoughts Appendix A: Outline of the Great Lamp of the Dharma Dhāraṇī Scripture Appendix B: Translation of Chapter 13 Appendix C: Translation of Chapter 20 Appendix D: Translation of Chapter 37 Appendix E: Translation of Chapter 39 Appendix F: Translation of Chapter 52 Notes References Index

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