Gummer, N.

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Authors of English Works • Professors

English Phonetics	Natalie Gummer
Sort Name	Gummer, Natalie

Tibetan calendar dates

Dates of birth

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Rab Jyung

Dates of passing

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Rab Jyung

Contact information

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About

Primary Affiliation (Workplace)

Beloit College

PhD University

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)
  

Biographical Information

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)

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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.