Natalie Gummer

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MainNamePhon	Natalie Gummer
SortName	Gummer, Natalie
bio	Natalie Gummer (Ph.D., Harvard University) is Professor of Religious Studies at Beloit College. A literary and cultural historian of Buddhism, she studies the intersection of textual practices with ritual, aesthetics, and ethics in premodern Mahāyāna Buddhist literary cultures. She is co-editor of Defining Buddhism(s): A Reader, and is the author of several articles on Buddhist literary culture. She is currently working on a study of textual techniques of transformation in Mahāyāna sūtras, and a translation of the Suvarṇaprabhāsottamasūtra (The Sūtra of Utmost Golden Radiance). (Source Accessed Apr 14, 2022)
associatedwebsite	Faculty Page; Academia
affiliation	Beloit College
phduniversity	Harvard University
education	Ph.D., Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University (2000). Dissertation: "Articulating Potency: A Study of the Suvarṇa(pra)bhāsottamasūtra." A.M., Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University (1998) M.A. Candidate, Asian Languages, University of Washington (1994-1995) B.A., Asian Studies, University of Toronto (1994)
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Mahāyāna, or the Great Vehicle, refers to the system of Buddhist thought and practice which developed around the beginning of Common Era, focusing on the pursuit of the state of full enlightenment of the Buddha through the realization of the wisdom of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion.