Author Affiliation: Leiden University The Netherlands Leiden
關鍵詞
caṇḍāla; caste; Buddhism; prejudice; ancient India; discrimination
摘要
Indian Buddhist literary sources contain both systematic and casual rejections of, broadly speaking, the caste system and caste discrimination. However, they also provide ample evidence for, possibly subconscious, discriminatory attitudes toward outcastes, prototypically caṇḍālas. The rhetoric found in Indian Buddhist literature regarding caṇḍālas is examined in this paper.
目次
Abstract 128 1 General Issues 128 2 Indian Buddhism and Caste 130 3 Outcastes 137 4 Status and Spiritual Potential of Outcastes 139 5 The Bad State of the caṇḍāla 150 6 Exclusion from Ordination 160 7 Grammaticalization of -caṇḍāla 163 8 Rhetoric and Prejudice 172 Reference Note 176 Acknowledgments 176 References 177
