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| The Fruits of Paradox: On the Religious Architecture of the Buddha's Life Story | ||
| 作者 | Silk, Jonathan Alan |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of the American Academy of Religion |
| 卷期 | v.71 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2003.12 |
| 頁次 | 863 - 881 |
| 出版者 | Oxford University Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ |
| 出版地 | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Traditional accounts of the life story of the Buddha contain an apparent paradox: at birth he is virtually omniscient, but by adolescence when he encounters the famous "four sights"-an old man, an ill man, a corpse, and a mendicant-he does not know how to understand them. This article proposes one possible religious meaning visible within this paradox, relating to differing motivations which encourage believers both to begin Buddhist practice, since they share the ignorance the Buddha felt as a young man, and to continue it despite the vast distance to its final goal, since it was only after a long series of rebirths that the Buddha himself could attain liberation. |
| ISSN | 00027189 (P); 14774585 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 707 |
| 建檔日期 | 2005.04.06 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.01.10 |
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