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Will the Real Nigantha Nātaputta Please Stand Up?: Reflections on the Buddha and his Contemporaries |
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Clasquin-Johnson, Michel (著)
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| Source |
Journal for the Study of Religion
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| Volume | v.28 n.1 |
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| Date | 2015 |
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| Pages | 100 - 114 |
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| Publisher | Association for the Study of Religion in Southern Africa (ASRSA) |
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| Publisher Url |
http://www.a-asr.org/
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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 | Author Affiliation: University of South Africa, South Africa. |
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| Keyword | Gotama Buddha; Nigantha Nātaputta; Mahāvīra; Early Buddhism; Jainism |
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| Abstract | It is a venerable academic tradition that Mahāvīra, the founder of Jainism known in the Pāli literature as Nigantha Nātaputta , was a somewhat older contemporary of the Buddha. This article describes the role of Nigantha Nātaputta in Buddhist literature and how this identification of Nigantha Nātaputta and Mahāvīra has become accepted in both Buddhist and Jain scholarship. The article then proceeds to demonstrate that there are reasons to doubt this identification — while it is not possible to state categorically that they were different people, the evidence for their identicality is quite meagre and there are textual references that show very different people going under the names of these two Indian religious figures. If we cannot simplistically assume that the figure named Nigantha Nātaputta in Buddhist sources was Mahāvīra, then this has chronological consequences for Buddhist studies, but even more so in Jain studies. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 100
Keywords 100
Introduction 100
Nigantha Nātaputta as a Figure in Buddhist Studies and Buddhist Literature 102
Nigantha Nātaputta and the Jain tradition 102
Why Nigantha Nātaputta may not be Mahāvīra 104
The Name Issue 104
The Character Issue 106
The Succession Issue 109
Conclusion 111
References 113 |
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| ISSN | 10117601 (P); 24133027 (E) |
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| Created date | 2025.02.18 |
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| Modified date | 2025.02.20 |
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