How Buddhism began : the conditioned genesis of the early teachings
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書誌事項
How Buddhism began : the conditioned genesis of the early teachings
（Jordan lectures in comparative religion, 17）
Athlone Press, 1996
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At head of title: Jordan lectures 1994
Jordan lectures 1994
Bibliography: p. [165]-169
Includes indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This book takes a fresh look at the earliest Buddhism texts and offers various suggestions how the teachings in them had developed. Two themes predominate. Firstly, it argues that we cannot understand the Buddha unless we understand that he was debating with other religious teachers, notably brahmins. For example, he denied the existence of a 'soul'; but what exactly was he denying? Another chapter suggests that the canonical story of the Buddha's encounter with a brigand who wore a garland of his victims' fingers probably reflects an encounter with a form of ecstatic religion. The other main theme concerns metaphor, allegory and literalism. By taking the words of the texts literally - despite the Buddha's warning not to - successive generations of his disciples created distinctions and developed doctrines far beyond his original intention. One chapter shows how this led to a scholastic categorisation of meditation. Failure to understand a basic metaphor also gave rise to the later argument between the Mahayana and the older tradition.
Perhaps most important of all, a combination of literalism with ignorance of the Buddha's allusions to brahminism led buddhists to forget that the Buddha had preached that love, like christian charity, could itself be directly salvific.
目次
- Debate, skill and means, allegory and literalism
- how, not what - "Kamma" as a reaction to Brahminism
- metaphor, allegory, satire
- retracing an ancient debate - how insight worsted concentration in the Pali canon
- who was Angulimala?
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