Schweizer Asiatische Studien / Etudes asiatique suisse
叢書號
13
資料類型
書籍=Book
使用語言
英文=English
附註項
Johannes Bronkhorst was born in 1946 in the Netherlands. Indological studies in Poona (doctorate 1979) and Leiden (doctorate 1980). Since 1987 Professor of Sanskrit and Indian studies at the University of Lausanne.
摘要
This book argues that the Indian ascetic traditions have two independent sources, the one Vedic, the other non-Vedic. This point of view has been expressed here and there in the scholarly literature, but it has never yet been argued in detail on the basis of textual evidence. The primary evidence is as follows: Early Indian literature - primarily the Epics, Buddhist and Jaina literature - explicitly differentiates between two types of ascetics, who distinguish themselves from each other in their aims, as well as in various other respects.
目次
The Apastamba Dharmasutra and Megasthenes The asramas in their historical development The special position of Buddhism.
