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C. W. Huntington Jr.
HISTORY , TRADITION ,
AND TRUTH
ç
2007 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.
0018-2710/2007/4603-0001$10.00
There are those two who misrepresent the Tath
a
gata. Which two?
He who represents a scripture of provisional meaning as a scripture
of definitive meaning, and he who represents a scripture of definite
meaning as a scripture of provisional meaning. (
A
“
guttara
Nik
a
ya
i.60)
Metamyths thus perform an important function in the self-justification
of any religious tradition, the essence of which is the perpetuation
of the myth that things have not changed when, in fact, they have.
(
Wendy Doniger
,
Other Peoples’ Myths
)
I
In recent years the importance of the stories we tell about ourselves has
received a good deal of attention. One result of this attention is that it can
now be said, without much controversy, that we literally create ourselves,
as individuals or as institutions, through the narration of......

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