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From the Blacksmith’s Forge to the Fires of Hell: Eating the Red-Hot Iron Ball in Early Buddhist Literature |
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Marino, Joseph
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Buddhist Studies Review
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| Volume | v.36 n.1 |
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| Date | 2019 |
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| Pages | 31 - 51 |
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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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| Note | Special Issue: Buddhist Path, Buddhist Teachings: Studies in Memory of L.S. Cousins
Author Affiliations: University of Washington |
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| Keyword | early Buddhist literature; discipline; similes; metallurgy; Gandhara |
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| Abstract | Early Buddhist texts were first being composed and compiled during South Asia’s Iron Age, and thus contain many references to iron and other metal technologies. This article examines one metalworking image that came to play a special role in the imagination of early Buddhists: the red-hot iron ball. I argue that the iron ball, which comes to be a torture device in hell, force-fed by hell wardens, is a mimesis of the piṇḍapāta, or almsfood offered to monks and nuns by the laity. Around iron ball imagery clusters a set of related Buddhist concerns: anxieties about undisciplined and deceitful monks and nuns, especially in relation to taking alms; the public perception of the saṅgha; the conceptualization of Buddhist hells as an unfortunate karmic result of lacking discipline; and the relationship between these hells and Indian juridical forms of punishment. |
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| Table of contents | Introduction 31 |
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| ISSN | 02652897 (P); 17479681 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1558/bsrv.37052 |
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| Created date | 2021.01.01 |
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| Modified date | 2021.01.10 |
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