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Love me for the Sake of the World: “Goddess Songs” in Tantric Buddhist Maṇḍala Rituals |
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Stephenson, Jackson (著)
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| Source |
Religions
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| Volume | v.11 n.3 |
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| Date | 2020.03 |
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| Publisher | MDIP |
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https://www.mdpi.com/
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| Location | Basel, Switzerland [巴塞爾, 瑞士] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Keyword | tantra; Buddhism; Apabhraṃśa; Prakrit; Old Bengali; dohās; diglossia; language register; ritual language |
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| Abstract | The presence of Apabhraṃśa in tantric Buddhist texts has long been noted by scholars, overwhelmingly explained away as an example of “Twilight language” (saṃdhā-bhāṣā). However, when one looks closer at the vast number of Apabhraṃśa verses in this canon, one finds recurring patterns, themes, and even tropes. This begs for deeper study, as well as establishing a taxonomy of these verses based on their place and use. This paper focuses on a specific subset of Apabhraṃśa verses: “goddess songs” in maṇḍala visualization rituals. These verses are sung by yoginīs at specific moments in esoteric Buddhist ritual syntax; while the sādhaka is absorbed in enstatic emptiness, four yoginīs call out to him with sexually charged appeals, begging him to return to the world and honor their commitments to all sentient beings. When juxtaposed with other Apabhraṃśa verses in tantric Buddhist texts, these songs express an immediacy and intimacy that stands out in both form and content from the surrounding text. This essay argues that Apabhraṃśa is a conscious stylistic choice for signaling intimate and esoteric passages in tantric literature, and so the vast number of Apabhraṃśa verses in this corpus should be reexamined in this light. |
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| Table of contents | 1. Introduction
2. Sanskrit Precedents: The Guhyasamāja Tantra and Kālacakra Tantra
3. The Hevajra Tantra
4. The Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa Tantra
5. The Buddhakapāla Tantra
6. The Kṛṣṇayamāri Tantra: Anuyoga and Mahāyoga
7. Conclusions
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| ISSN | 20771444 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11030124 |
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| Created date | 2021.11.15 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.19 |
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