世界佛教論壇籌備辦公室=Preparatory Office of the World Buddhist Forum
出版地
北京, 中國 [Beijing, China]
資料類型
會議論文=Proceeding Article
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
法寶之光-大藏經的整理、保護與研究=The Glorious Treasure of Dharma:Collation,Protection and Research of the Buddhist Canon
摘要
From the deafening silence that the Buddha experienced during the moonlit moment beneath the Bodhi tree, flowed the teaching of the Dharma. 2,500 years has since passed, and the accumulations of the Teachings into various versions of the Tripitaka have swelled into monstrous proportions. Numerous schools, countless interpretations and explanations of the teachings have been done. Buddhism and its literature have come a long way, and maybe some of its original luster has been lost among the clusters of information. Therefore, it ignites sparkles when one read suttas that are flowered with ancient simplicity and waltzed with the thunder of non-duality. The earliest chapters of the Sutta Nipāta do have such quality and, according to the erudite Professor Luis o. Gomez, "The significance of these passages cannot be exaggerated."[1] This essay will mainly concentrate on the Atthakavagga and the Parayanavagga of the Sutta-Nipāta (Sn) or "Discourse-collection," which is generally agreed among scholars to be some of the most ancient Buddhist teaching that is available to us. The first part of the essay will discuss the messages that are being conveyed by these vaggas; and secondly, stanzas from these vaggas that was quoted by the Holy Nagarjuna in the Mahāpraj?āpāramitā?āstra (MPPS) (大智度論), translated by Kumārajīva (402–405 A.D.)[2] will be examined. But we will begin with a brief discussion of several works that dealt with the Sutta-Nipāta in order to get a general picture of its important aspects.
