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Book Review: "Die Lichtmetaphorik im frühen Mahāyāna-Buddhismus," by Claudia Weber |
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著者 |
Roesler, Ulrike
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掲載誌 |
Indo-Iranian Journal
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巻号 | v.51 n.1 |
出版年月日 | 2008.03 |
ページ | 23 - 27 |
出版者 | Brill |
出版サイト |
http://www.brill.com/
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出版地 | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
資料の種類 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
言語 | 德文=German |
ノート | With the completion of Volume 51 (2008), this journal is no longer published by Springer. This journal is now published by Brill Publishers. |
抄録 | Claudia Weber’s study on “Light Metaphors in Early Mah¯ay¯ana Buddhism” deals with an important element in Buddhist literature: the imagery of light, darkness and fire with all their meanings and implications. In the Nik¯ayas, light and fire seem to be the most frequent upam¯anas next to water and animal metaphors,1 and one may intuitively assume that light imagery gets even more prominent in Mah¯ay¯ana literature. Therefore a study of this topic is highly welcome. The book presents the results of a DFG research project carried out at the University of Bonn. It is addressed to a broad readership, including scholars of Indian Studies and Religious Studies.2 The study is based on sources ranging from the As. t.as¯ahasrik¯aprajñ¯ap¯aramit¯a as the earliest work to the La˙nk¯avat¯aras¯utra (5th century?). They comprise eight of the S¯utras known as the “nine dharmas” in the Nepalese tradition (excluding the Guhyasam¯ajas¯utra) and the Sukh¯avat¯?vy¯uhas¯utra. The light metaphors in these Mah¯ay¯ana S¯utras are selectively compared with the canonical literature of non-Mah¯ay¯ana schools, with Buddhist works like the avad¯ana collections, the Abhidharmako’sa and the “Yoga Manual” (“Yogalehrbuch”) from...... |
ISSN | 00197246 (P); 15728536 (E) |
ヒット数 | 751 |
作成日 | 2009.11.27 |
更新日期 | 2019.12.17 |
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