Allon, M. (1997a). The oral composition and transmission of early buddhist texts. In P. Connolly and S. Hamilton (Eds.), Indian insights: Buddhism, Brahmanism and Bhakti. Papers from the annual spalding symposium on Indian religion, (pp. 39–61). Luzac Oriental.
關鍵詞
Early Buddhist texts; Orality; Memorization; Textual change; Comparative studies
摘要
This article discusses the composition and transmission of early Buddhist texts with specific reference to sutras. After briefly summarizing the main reasons why it is likely that these oral compositions were designed to be memorized and transmitted verbatim, I will discuss the main types of changes that these texts underwent in the course of their transmission and the reasons such changes occurred, then attempt to give an account of the challenge that change, particularly intentional change, posed to the oral transmission of fixed, memorized texts.
目次
Abstract 523 Introduction 523 The Stylistic Features of Sutra Prose and What They Reveal About the Composition and Transmission of These Texts 524 References Within Canonical Texts to Texts Being Memorized and Recited Communally 530 The Formation of Sutra and Verse Collections, and the saṃgītikāras and bhāṇakas 532 The Main Differences Between Parallel Versions of Early Buddhist Texts and Accounting for These Differences 535 Recent Scholarship on the Composition of Early Buddhist Texts, and Initiating and Adapting to Change 547 Abbreviations 553 References 553
