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The Two Faces of Deva: The Māra/Brahmā Tandem |
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作者 |
Nichols, Michael D.
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出處題名 |
Religions of South Asia
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卷期 | v.3 n.1 |
出版日期 | 2009 |
頁次 | 45 - 60 |
出版者 | Equinox Publishing Ltd. |
出版者網址 |
https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/
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出版地 | Sheffield, UK [謝菲爾德, 英國] |
資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
使用語言 | 英文=English |
摘要 | In this paper, I demonstrate how a comparison of the portrayals of Brahmadevas with the figure of Māra in Buddhist Pali texts can tell us a great deal about Indian Buddhist sociology that has been overlooked previously. This coordination of Brahma and Māra clearly serves to hierarchize human Brahmins as either potential allies in religious practice or demonic impediments, showing a direct link between Buddhist mythic narrative and conceptualizations of social categories. This paper demonstrates how attention to connections between mythic narrative and social interaction sheds light on the complexities of Indian Buddhist attitudes toward their Brahmanical competitors. |
ISSN | 17512689 (P); 17512697 (E) |
點閱次數 | 122 |
建檔日期 | 2017.01.05 |
更新日期 | 2020.05.05 |
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