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Speech Acts of the Buddha: Sovereign Ritual and the Poetics of Power in Mahāyāna Sūtras |
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Gummer, Natalie (著)
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| Source |
History of Religions
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| Volume | v.61 n.2 |
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| Date | 2021.11 |
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| Pages | 173 - 211 |
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| Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
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https://www.press.uchicago.edu/index.html
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| Location | Chicago, IL, US [芝加哥, 伊利諾伊州, 美國] |
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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 | Natalie Gummer, Beloit College. |
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| Abstract | In this essay, I analyze the multilayered metaphors of sovereignty and sovereign ritual through which the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka and the Suvarṇa(pra)bhāsa, two Mahāyāna sūtras, represent and enact their own potency. I develop a theory of ritual-poetic speech acts and an interpretative methodology from this analysis. According to these sūtras, the dharma that constitutes them is the verbal essence of sovereignty. It consecrates its listeners through predictions and related speech acts that are activated in the moment of utterance; it proclaims the royal decrees through which buddhas govern reality in their own fields; it embodies all buddhas and makes them present in its eternal ritual-poetic substance. Through the performative strategies mobilized by these metaphors, the sūtras rhetorically position their audiences as subjects of (and subject to) this supreme sovereign power and motivate their engagement in a progressive series of ritual-verbal practices of incorporation by which they are in turn transformed into buddhas with the same sovereign essence. The ritual metaphors and mechanisms through which these transformations are evoked and effected reveal linguistic theories and practices quite different from those that continue to dominate the study of religious texts, and demand that we develop new approaches to the interpretation of these and other texts. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract
I. Metaphors of Sacrifice, Metaphors as Sacrifice 176
II. The Buddha’s Sovereign Speech 191
III. The Subject of Sovereign Speech 200
IV. Conclusion 209
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| ISSN | 00182710 (P); 15456935 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1086/716427 |
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| Hits | 108 |
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| Created date | 2023.06.17 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.17 |
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