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| Buddhist Scriptures As Literature: Sacred Rhetoric and the Uses of Theory | ||
| 作者 | Flores, Ralph |
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| 出版日期 | 2008.02.07 |
| 頁次 | 223 |
| 出版者 | State University of New York Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.sunypress.edu/ |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Buddha;bodhicitta=菩提心;dharma=法;Dhammapada=法句;koan=公案;nirvana=涅槃;Sariputra=舍利弗; |
| 關鍵詞 | 心經=Heart Sutra; 尼陀那=因緣=Nidana; 布施=宗教捐獻=寺廟募款=Dana=Donation; 本生經=Jataka; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 佛教經典=Buddhist Scriptures=Sutra; 法師=Master; 空性=Sunyata=Sunnata=Emptiness; 長行=契經=修多羅=Sutra; 度母=Tara; 馬鳴=Asvaghosa; 寂天菩薩=Shantideva; 菩薩=Bodhisattva; 闍陀迦=本生=Jataka; Bardo Thodol=中陰得度 |
| 摘要 | Looks at a variety of Buddhist sacred writings as literature and includes insights from literary theory. Buddhist Scriptures as Literature explores the drama, lyricism, and compelling storylines in Buddhist sacred writings, while illustrating how rhetoric and ideology are at work in shaping readers’ reactions. Ralph Flores argues that the Buddha’s life story itself follows an archetypal quest-romance pattern: regal surroundings are abandoned and the ensuing feats are heroic. The story can be read as an epic, but it also has a comic plot: confusions and trials until the Prince becomes utterly selfless, having found his true element—nirvana. Making use of contemporary literary theory, Flores offers new readings of texts such as the Nikayas, the Dhammapada, the Heart Sutra, Zen koans, Shantideva’s Way of the Bodhisattva, and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Understanding these works as literature deepens our sense of the unfolding of their teachings, of their exuberant histories, and of their relevance for contemporary life. “This book brings Buddhist texts up to the level of literature, as cultural texts worth reading for their own rhetorical qualities beyond their religious message.” — Francisca Cho, author of Everything Yearned For: Manhae’s Poems of Love and Longing. |
| 目次 | Fictions of reading: Westerners and Buddhist texts A prince transformed: the Nikayas, the Nidanakatha Asvaghosa's Acts of the Buddha The Buddha awakening: the Nikayas Winning conversions: the Nikayas Passing on: the Nikayas Figures of right speech: the Dhammapada Joyous negations: the Heart sutra Masters of emptiness: the Gateless barrier and Zen folktales Extreme giving: the Vessantara jataka and Shantideva's a Guide to the bodhisattva way Final emergency reading: the Tibetan book of the dead Images in the reader |
| ISBN | 9780791473399 (hc); 0791473392 |
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| 點閱次數 | 608 |
| 建檔日期 | 2007.09.14 |
| 更新日期 | 2014.05.19 |
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