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From Nothing to No-thing-ness to Emptiness: The Buddhist Recycling of an Old Jain Saying |
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Jones, Dhivan Thomas (著)
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The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies=IIJBS
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| Volume | v.22 |
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| Date | 2023 |
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| Pages | 75 - 100 |
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| Publisher | Bhikkhu Jagdish Kashyap Institute of Buddhist and Asian Studies, Aditya-Shyam Trust |
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| Location | Varanasi, India [瓦拉納西, 印度] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | In this article I investigate a difficult saying of the Buddha, preserved in three places in Pāli canonical discourses: n’ āhaṃ kvacani kassaci kiñcanatasmiṃ, na ca mama kvacani kismiñci kiñcanat’ atthi (‘There is no I anywhere in anyone’s property, and neither is there anywhere in anything property which is mine’). At A 3: 70, this saying is attributed to the Jains, while at A 4: 185, the Buddha teaches it as a ‘brahman truth’ acceptable to paribbājakas, and at M 106, the Buddha teaches it as a means of attaining the experiential dimension of no-thing-ness (ākiñcaññāyatana). I compare this Pāli saying with a Jain version, preserved in the Āyāraṅga Sutta, and I also compare it other versions preserved in Sanskrit and Gāndhārī, as well as in versions translated into Chinese and Tibetan. I conclude that the Pāli version has become garbled in transmission, and I reconstruct two conjectural original forms of the saying, one of them suitable to be attributed to the Jains and one the Buddha’s modification of this Jain saying. I conclude that the old saying is an example of Buddhist recycling of sayings current in the śramaṇa culture of north India. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 75
Textual variation in the Pāli version 78
An old Jain saying 79
The old Jain saying becomes a ‘brahman-truth’ 84
The old saying becomes a way to enter ‘no-thing-ness’ 86
A reconstruction of the original Pāli versions 90
‘Four-cornered emptiness’ 93
Conclusion 96
Abbreviations 97
References 97 |
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| ISSN | 09724893 (P) |
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| Hits | 107 |
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| Created date | 2023.08.10 |
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| Modified date | 2023.08.10 |
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