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1138862509 epub This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumrajva (344-413 CE), Paramrtha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Mah-Prajpramit-upadea-stra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhva-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.hataka-stra-krika). Focusing its attention on the Mahyna Buddhist notion of samat, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions.