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Meditation on the Body in Chapter 7 of Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra |
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Kritzer, Robert (著)
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| Source |
Religions
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| Volume | v.11 n.6 |
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| Date | 2020.06 |
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| Publisher | MDIP |
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https://www.mdpi.com/
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| Location | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
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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 | This article belongs to the Special Issue Impurity Revisited: Contemplative Practices, Textual Sources, and Visual Representations in Asian Religions |
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| Keyword | Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra; meditation on the body; meditation on the impure; impurity; internal worms; internal winds; Buddhism; Indian medicine |
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| Abstract | Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra is an Indian Buddhist sutra dating to the first half of the first millennium. Chapter 7 of the sutra consists of a very long meditation on the body, unusual in Buddhist literature for its anatomical, especially osteological, detail. The meditation also includes extensive descriptions of many internal worms as well as the internal winds that destroy the worms at the moment of death. The sutra has several elements not found in other Buddhist texts. For example, the Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra meditation on the body includes extensive descriptions of things in the external world (e.g., rivers, mountains, flowers) and designates them as the “external body”. Most strikingly, the meditation on the body found in Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra differs from the general scholarly perception of Buddhist meditations on the body in that it does not emphasize impurity or generate repulsion. Instead, the sutra guides the meditator through a dispassionate and “scientific” observation of the body and the world. |
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| Table of contents | 1. Introduction
2. Results Contents of Saddharmasmṛtyupasthānasūtra, Chapter 7
3. Conclusions
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| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11060283 |
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| Created date | 2021.11.15 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.19 |
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