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The Senses of Performance and the Performance of the Senses: The Case of the Dharmabhāṇaka’s Body |
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Gummer, Natalie (著)
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Journal of Indian Philosophy
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| Volume | v.50 n.4 |
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| Date | 2022.09 |
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| Pages | 619 - 647 |
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| Publisher | Springer |
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http://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 | Natalie Gummer, Beloit College, Beloit, WI, USA. |
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| Keyword | Mahayana Buddhism; Self-referentiality; Abhi⋅eka(abhiseka); Darśan(darsan); Preacher; Embodiment |
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| Abstract | In the “Chapter on the Benefits to the Performer of the Dharma” (dharmabhāṇakānuśaṁsāparivartaḥ) in the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka (Lotus Sūtra), the Buddha proclaims the many remarkable transformations that will take place in the six sense faculties of the performer of the dharma (dharmabhāṇaka). An analysis of this chapter clarifies both the sūtra’s normative vision for the performance of the dharmabhāṇaka who announces his sensory enhancements and the nature of the bodily transformations that the sūtra promises to enact upon him as a consequence of his performance. This paper demonstrates that the performed sūtra enacts the interdependent rituals of abhi⋅eka and darśan through verbal practices of impersonation, self-praise, and ontological transformation. In the process, it sheds new light on the self-referentiality of some Mahāyāna sūtras as a form of performed and performative utterance that aims to transform both speakers and listeners. As in other traditions of sensory-somatic transformation through verbal impersonation in ancient South Asia, the ritual-dramatic utterance of the sūtra engenders a manifestation of presence that takes shape in the complex embodied intersections among the “original” speaker (in this case, the Buddha), the performer, and the audience. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 619
Setting the Scene: Why the Senses? 624
Seeing Double 628
Lend Me Your Ear 632
A Nose for the Truth 634
Watch Your Tongue 636
(Corpo)real Illusions 640
It’s All in Your Mind 642
Conclusion: Becoming buddhavacana 644
References 646 |
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| ISSN | 00221791 (P); 15730395 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-022-09518-0 |
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| Hits | 74 |
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| Created date | 2023.06.30 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.30 |
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