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Seeing in the Dark: of Epistemic Culture and Abhidharma in the Long Fifth Century C.E. |
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Kachru, Sonam (著)
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Journal of Dharma Studies: Asian and Transcultural Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics
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| Volume | v.3 n.2 |
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| Date | 2020.10 |
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| Pages | 291 - 317 |
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| Publisher | Springer |
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https://www.springer.com/gp
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| Location | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
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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 | Authors and Affiliations: University of Virgnia, 105 Monticello Ave, Apartment 304, Charlottesville, VA, 2290, USA |
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| Keyword | Abhidharma; Epistemic culture; Knowledge; Vasubandhu; Abhidharmakosabhasya; Epistemic structure; Buddha |
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| Abstract | Abhidharma, the genre of knowledge concerned with putting into systematic shape what the Buddha taught, can seem a forbidding subject. In this essay, taking Skandhila’s Introduction to Abhidharma and Vasubandhu’s Abhidharmakośabhāṣya as touchstones, I will try to shed a little philosophical light on Abhidharma as a variety of epistemic culture in the long fifth century C.E. in South Asia. To think of Abhidharma as an epistemic culture is not only to think of what goes into the making of knowledge and its justification. It is also a way to counter-point presentations of domains of inquiry which stress the retroactive organization and unity of knowledge at the expense of the heterogeneity that goes into its making. More particularly, what is at stake is a feel for the diversity of epistemic machinery Abhidharma can involve and why such diversity can matter. The essay concludes with a consideration of Vasubandhu’s closing remarks, which suggest the importance of temporal contexts of intellectual practice in which certain styles of knowledge and virtues associated with knowledge may acquire (quasi-historically) variable salience. |
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| ISSN | 25220926 (P); 25220934 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s42240-020-00088-6 |
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| Created date | 2022.08.18 |
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| Modified date | 2022.08.19 |
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