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Dāna Giving and Getting in Pali Buddhism |
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Findly, E. B.
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| Date | 2003 |
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| Pages | 432 |
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| Publisher | MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHERS PRIVATE LIMITED |
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http://www.mlbd.com/
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| Location | India [印度] |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | 布施=宗教捐獻=寺廟募款=Dana=Donation; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 初期佛教=早期佛教=根本佛教=原始佛教=Primitive Buddhism=Early Buddhism; 信心=Belief=Faith; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 福報=福田=功德=Virtue=Merit; Theravada Buddhism; India; Hinayana Buddhism; Buddhist Traditions |
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| Abstract | This book argues that donation (dāna) is one of the central practices in early Buddhism for, without it, Buddhism would not have survived and flourished in the many centuries of its development and expansion. Early Buddhist donation draws on older Vedic beliefs and practices, especially those involving funeral ceremonies and the ritual transfiguration of the ancestors (pitṛs). Buddhist relationship between donors and renunciants developed quickly into a complex web that involves material life and the views about how to attend to it. Questions of how to properly acquire and use wealth, how to properly give and receive individual and communal gifts, how to think about using and transferring merit, and what constitutes proper food, robes, lodging, and medicine are central to the "dāna contract."
The dāna system reflects the changing dynamics of life in northern India as wealth and leisure time increase, and as newly powerful groups of people look around for alternative religions affiliation. Buddhist dāna's great success is due to the early and continuing use of accommodation with other faiths as a foundational value, thus allowing the tradition to adapt to changing circumstances. |
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| ISBN | 812081956x (hc) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Dāna: Giving and Getting in Pali Buddhism, Ellison Banks Findly / Norman, K.R. (著)
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| Created date | 2008.08.01 |
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| Modified date | 2018.12.06 |
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