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Cultivation of Moral Concern in Theravada Buddhism: Toward a Theory of the Relation Between Tranquility and Insight |
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Author |
Mills, Ethan
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Source |
Journal of Buddhist Ethics
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Volume | v.11 |
Date | 2004 |
Pages | 21 - 45 |
Publisher | Department of History & Religious Studies Program , The Pennsylvania State University |
Publisher Url |
https://history.la.psu.edu/
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Location | University Park, PA, US |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | Ethan Mills, Augsburg College |
Keyword | 南傳佛教=Theravada Buddhism |
Abstract | There are two groups of scholars writing on the two main types of Buddhist meditation: one group that considers insight (vipassanā) to be essential and tranquility (samatha) to be inessential in the pursuit of nirvana, and a second group that views both samatha and vipassanā to be essential. I approach an answer to the question of which group is correct in two steps: (1) an outline of the disagreement between Paul Griffiths (of the first group) and Damien Keown (of the second group); and (2), an augmentation of Keown’s assertion that samatha can cultivate moral concern. I am not definitively solving the problem of the relationship between samatha and vipassanā, but rather I show that by making Keown’s theory of the cultivation of moral concern more plausible we have more reasons to accept his larger theory of the importance of both samatha and vipassanā. |
Table of contents | 1. Introduction: Meditations in Tension? 21 1.1. Griffiths: problematic yoking 23 1.2. Keown: Let the yoking commence 25 2. How Could Samatha Cultivate Moral Concern?: Two Answers 30 2.1 The human nature argument 31 2.2. The Divine Abidings argument 34 3. Conclusion: Moral Virtues and the Cultivation of Keown’s Thesis 41 Notes 42 Buddhist Text Abbreviations 44 Bibliography 44 |
ISSN | 10769005 (E) |
Hits | 873 |
Created date | 2004.08.13
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Modified date | 2017.07.11 |
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