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Bond, George D. The Word of the Buddha: The Tipitaka and Its Interpretation in Theravada Buddhism. Columbo, Sri Lanka: Gunasena, 1982.

Collins, Steven. Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Lancaster, Lewis. "The Oldest Mahayana Sutra." The Eastern Buddhist 8 (1975): 30–41.

Lopez, Donald S., Jr., ed. Buddhist Hermeneutics. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1988.

Powers, John. Hermeneutics and Tradition in the Samdhinirmocana-sutra. Leiden, Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 1993.

Ruegg, David Seyfort. "Purport, Implicature, and Presupposition: Sanskrit Abhiprāya and Tibetan Dgons pa/Dgon gΩi as Hermeneutical Concepts." Journal of Indian Philosophy 13 (1985): 309–325.

Timm, Jeffrey R., ed. Texts in Context: Traditional Hermeneutics in South Asia. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1992.

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