# Chiew Hui Ho: The Lives of Sūtras

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Podcast: [The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-ho-center-for-buddhist-studies-at-stanford-7277833)
Published: 2026-04-01T07:00:00+00:00
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Chiew Hui Ho talks about parasutraic texts in medieval China that chronicle devotion to specific sūtras, how these histories give us a picture of “Buddhism on the ground” distinct from that of miracle tales, and how scriptures like the Diamond Sūtra and Lotus Sūtra thereby develop lives and biographies of their own. Interview by Miles Osgood.

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