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Soreyya/ā’s double sex change: on gender relevance and Buddhist values |
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Dhammadinna (著)
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創価大学国際仏教学高等研究所年報=Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka University=ソウカ ダイガク コクサイ ブッキョウガク コウトウ ケンキュウジョ ネンポウ
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| Volume | v.22 |
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| Date | 2019 |
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| Pages | 9 - 33 |
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| Publisher | 創価大学・国際仏教学高等研究所 |
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http://iriab.soka.ac.jp/publication/
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| Location | 八王子, 日本 [Hachioji, Japan] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | Dhammapada; Dhammapada-aṭṭhavaṇṇanā; gender; motherly love; priya/piya; Ṛtuparṇa; sex change; sneha/sineha; Soreyya |
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| Abstract | This article studies the double sex-change motif in the Soreyyatthera-vatthu, the “Story
(literally, “subject matter”) of the Elder Soreyya”, of the Dhammapada-aṭṭhavaṇṇanā,
the commentary on the canonical stanzas of the Dhammapada. The Soreyyatthera-vatthu
tells the story of the householder Soreyya’s spontaneous sex change to female, as a result
of an unwholesome fantasy aroused by the sight of the beautiful hue on the body of the
venerable Mahākaccāyana. The protagonist of the story then regains the male sex upon
having regretted and made amends for his former thought, goes forth as a Buddhist
monk, and eventually becomes an arahant. The article first presents the narrative and the
canonical stanzas in light of their literary antecedent in the Baudhāyana-śrautasūtra, one
of the oldest ritual manuals stemming from the Taittirīya exegetical school of the Black
Yajurveda (sections I–III). It then reviews a reading proposed by Reiko Ohnuma (2007
and 2012) that sees gender-discourse relevance in the narrative and the verse this
encapsulates, as if they were expressions of “Buddhist ambivalence” towards or
“devaluation” of “mother-love” (section IV), followed by a few closing thoughts on the
Buddhist “super-valuation” of world detachment (section V). |
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| Table of contents | The Soreyyatthera-vatthu 9
Ṛtuparṇa’s sex change in the Baudhāyana-śrautasūtra 13
Typological comparison 15
A gendered reading? A response to Reiko Ohnuma (2007 and 2012) 19
Conclusion 29 |
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| ISSN | 13438980 (P) |
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| Created date | 2021.11.19 |
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| Modified date | 2021.11.19 |
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