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The Play of Formulas in the Early Buddhist Discourses |
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Shulman, Eviatar (著)
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Journal of Indian Philosophy
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| Volume | v.50 n.4 |
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| Date | 2022.09 |
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| Pages | 557 - 580 |
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| Publisher | Springer |
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http://www.springer.com/gp/
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| Location | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
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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 | Eviatar Shulman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel. |
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| Keyword | Buddhist literature; Pāli Canon; Oral literature; Early Buddhist discourses; Majjhima Nikāya; Dīgha Nikāya |
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| Abstract | The play of formulas is a new theory designed to explain the manner in which discourses (Suttas, Sūtras) were composed in the early Buddhist tradition, focusing at present mainly on the Dīgha- and Majjhima- Nikāyas (the collections of the Buddha’s Long and Middle-length discourses). This theory combats the commonly accepted views that texts are mainly an attempt to record and preserve the Buddha’s teachings and life events, and that the best way to understand their history is to compare parallel versions of them. By identifying the creative, mainly the literary, vectors alive in the shaping of the texts, the theory explains how discourses are the products of formulas, which themselves are the primary texts of early Buddhism. Formulas combine in order to produce meaningful textual patterns, with little account of historical context and with much interest in aesthetic appeal and emotive potency. Formulas connect according to set narrative designs, in which different types of audiences are represented not only through unique formulas, but also with their specific narrative trajectories and complementing doctrinal emphases. It is not that the early authors were not at all interested in safeguarding the tradition. It is only that there was much more going on, and that thinking about the texts in this way misses their entertaining faces and ignores their beauty. These probably tell us more about what the early discourses actually were for the people that first produced and studied them than dry philosophical doctrine. |
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| Table of contents | Abstract 557
Wild Fun and Extreme Doctrine in Stories with Sunakkhatta 563
Playing with Answers to the Unanswered Questions 566
What Makes a Harmonious Monk? 570
Representing Meditation 575
References 578 |
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| ISSN | 00221791 (P); 15730395 (E) |
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| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10781-021-09491-0 |
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| Created date | 2023.06.30 |
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| Modified date | 2023.06.30 |
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