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Survivability: Vasubandhu and Saṅghabhadra on the Continuity of the Life of a Sentient Being as Translated by Xuanzang |
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Brewster, Ernest Billings
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Hualin International Journal of Buddhist Studies
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| Volume | v.3 n.1 Special Issue: Manuscript Studies and Xuanzang Studies |
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| Date | 2020.05 |
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| Pages | 170 - 227 |
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| Publisher | Cambria Press |
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| Publisher Url |
http://www.cambriapress.com/
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| Location | New York, US [紐約州, 美國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliations: Iona College, New Rochelle, New York |
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| Keyword | Xuanzang; Vasubandhu; Saṅghabhadra; Abhidharmanyānanusāra śāstra; Apidamo shun zhengli lun; 阿毘達磨順正理論; Abhidharmasamayapradīpikā śāstra; Apidamo zang xianzong lun=阿毘達磨藏顯宗論 |
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| Abstract | This paper presents the doctrinal argumentation on the continuity of the life of an individual sentient being found in the Abhidharma Buddhist texts translated by Xuanzang and his Tang Dynasty (618–907) collaborators. Vasubandhu, in the Treasury of the Abhidharma, and Saṅghabhadra, in his two commentaries on this text, the Abhidharma Treatise Conforming to the Correct Logic, and the Treatise Clarifying Abhidharma Tenets, enlist the doctrines of the continuum (Skt. saṃtāna; Ch. xiangxu 相續) and the aggregates (Skt. skandha; Ch. yun 蘊) to support the idea that the life of an individual sentient being does not end with the death of the body. The conceptualization of survivability, articulated by Vasubandhu and Saṅghabhadra in these three Abhidharma masterworks, is that an individual sentient being continues in life, and survives death, the afterlife, and reincarnation, in the form of aggregates bundled together in the continuum. This paper enlists a source criticism methodology to compare the translations of the Abhidharma texts by Xuanzang and his coterie, with earlier recensions of the texts in Chinese, and received versions in Tibetan and Sanskrit, to describe the definitions, examples, and logic employed by Vasubandhu and Saṅghabhadra in their argumentation in defense of the doctrine that the life of an individual sentient being persists throughout the four stages of the Buddhist life cycle: life, death, the afterlife, and reincarnation. Ultimately, for Vasubandhu and Saṅghabhadra, as well as for Xuanzang, the individual life constituted by the continuum of a sentient being persists in the face of constant change and radical impermanence. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 171
Momentariness, Impermanence, Saṃtāna, and the Five Skandhas 175
Surviving the Pūrvabhava, the World of Fundamental Being 178
Continuity in the Pūrvabhava: Causal Efficacy, Causal Capacity, and Momentariness 179
Surviving Maraṇabhava, the Time of Becoming Deceased 188
Surviving Maraṇabhava: The Transformation of the FruitBearing Plant 189
Surviving the Antarābhava, the Intermediate State 192
The Body of the Upapāduka 196
The Karma of the Intermediate Being 200
Proofs of the Existence of an Intermediate State 202
Surviving Reincarnation: The Pratisaṃdhikāla 208
The Exposition of the Example of the Flame of a Candle 210
Saṅghabhadra Contends That the Brāhmaṇical Ātman Is Not the Locus of Transmigration 213
Conclusion 219 |
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| ISSN | 27050742 (P) |
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| DOI | https://dx.doi.org/10.15239/hijbs.03.01.06 |
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| Hits | 275 |
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| Created date | 2021.03.23 |
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| Modified date | 2022.05.18 |
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