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The Semantic Elucidation (nirukta) of Bodhisattva Spiritual Attainment: A Rhetorical Technique in Early Mahāyāna Sūtras |
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Apple, James B. (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 | 171 - 192 |
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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 | Nirukta; etymology; rhetoric; skilful means; pratibhāna (eloquence); bodhisattva attainment |
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| Abstract | This paper argues that semantic elucidation (nirukta) served as a powerful rhetorical
technique for authorial communities in the propagation of Mahāyāna texts to transform
mainstream Buddhist states of attainment—such as the Stream-enterer (srota-āpanna), Nonreturner (anāgāmin), and Arhant—into spiritual levels embodied by bodhisattvas. The paper
argues that this transformation of mainstream Buddhist levels of attainment occurred in early
Mahāyāna formations before the structure of the bodhisattva ten stages (daśabhūmi) was
established. The paper demonstrates, through drawing upon examples from sūtras such as the
Śūraṃgamasamādhi, Saddharma-puṇḍarīka, and Avaivartikacakra, that the ‘method of
nairukta’ (nairukta-vidhānena), through processes of transvaluation and substitution,
hollowed out mainstream Buddhist understandings of spiritual attainment and reformulated
them in terms of the bodhisattva way found among nascent Mahāyāna communities. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 171
Semantic Elucidation in Mainstream and Mahāyāna Buddhist literature 174
The Rhetorical Nature of nirukti/nirvacana in Mahāyāna sūtras 176
Transvaluing Mainstream Buddhist Categories of Spiritual Attainment 177
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| ISSN | 13438980 (P) |
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| Hits | 145 |
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| Created date | 2021.11.19 |
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| Modified date | 2021.11.19 |
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