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Madness and Possession in Pāli Texts |
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Collins, Steven
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| Source |
Buddhist Studies Review
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| Volume | v.31 n.2 |
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| Date | 2014 |
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| Pages | 195 - 214 |
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| Publisher | Equinox Publishing Ltd. |
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https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/
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| Location | Sheffield, UK [謝菲爾德, 英國] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Abstract | In the context of contemporary interest in the use of Buddhist meditation practices in modern psychology, psychiatry and psychotherapy, this article offers a preliminary survey of a subject hitherto almost completely unstudied: madness in Premodern Pāli texts. (Possession, especially but not only by Māra, who is both a deity and a phenomenological reality, is regarded by the Pāli tradition as a kind of madness.) Using story-literature as well as doctrinal and jurisprudential texts, the article aims to collect together material on three ways in which the ideas and behaviours of madness are used: (i) the literal-pathological, (ii) in comparisons (‘as if’ mad), and (iii) in the metaphorical-evaluative sense where it is alleged that everyone who is not enlightened (or at least on the Path to it) is ‘mad’. It is centered around an eightfold classification of madness given in the commentary to a Jātaka story, the Birth Story about Darīmukha (Ja III #378, III 238–246). |
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| ISSN | 02652897 (P); 17479681 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1558/bsrv.v31i2.195 |
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| Created date | 2017.05.17 |
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| Modified date | 2017.07.06 |
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