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Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadanasataka 1–40 |
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Appleton, Naomi (著)
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| Volume | Summer |
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| Date | 2020 |
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| Pages | 245 |
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| Publisher | Equinox Publishing |
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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 | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Author Affiliation: University of Edinburgh, UK. |
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| Abstract | Many Buddhas, One Buddha introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or "One Hundred Stories", and explores some of its perspectives on buddhahood. This text, composed in Sanskrit and dating to perhaps the third to fifth centuries of the Common Era, is affiliated with the Sarvāstivāda or Mūlasarvāstivāda, and thus provides important evidence of the ideas and literatures of lost non-Mahāyāna schools of Indian Buddhism. The text is a rich literary composition, in mixed prose and verse, and includes some elaborate devotional passages that illuminate early Indian perspectives on the Buddha and on the role of avad♯¹na texts. The book introduces the first four chapters of the Avadānaśataka through key themes of these stories, such as predictions and vows, preparations for buddhahood, the relationship between Śākyamuni and other buddhas, and the relationship between full buddhahood and pratyekabuddhahood. The study of these stories closes with an argument about the structural design of the text, and what this tells us about attitudes towards different forms of awakening. The second part of the book then presents a full English translation of stories 1-40. |
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| Table of contents | Preface vii
Part A: Study
1. Crossing the Flood of Rebirth 2
2. The Avadānaśataka 5
3. Many Buddhas 10
4. Śākyamuni’s Past Lives 21
5. Independent Buddhahood 29
6. Miracles, Offerings, Aspirations and Predictions 37
7. And Then the Buddha Smiled 41
8. Structure of the Avadānaśataka 45
9. Many Buddhas, Many Buddhisms 52
10. One Buddha, Many Lessons 54
Part A Notes 55
Part B: Translation
Note on the translation 64
First Decade (Stories 1-10) 66
Second Decade (Stories 11-20) 97
Third Decade (Stories 21-30) 143
Fourth Decade (Stories 31-40) 167
Part B Notes 216
End Matter
Glossary 223
Bibliography 235
Index 239 |
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| ISBN | 9781781798966 (hbc); 9781781798973 (pbc); 9781781798980 (ePDF) |
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| Related reviews | - Book Review: Many Buddhas, One Buddha: A Study and Translation of Avadanasataka 1–40 by Naomi Appleton / McGovern, Nathan (評論)
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| Created date | 2024.05.03 |
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| Modified date | 2024.05.06 |
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