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| The Somatics of Liberation: Ideas about Embodiment in Buddhism from its Origins to the Fifth Century C.E | ||
| 作者 | Radich, Michael David (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Dissertation Abstracts International |
| 卷期 | v.68 n.10 Section A |
| 出版日期 | 2007 |
| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.proquest.com/ |
| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | Harvard University |
| 系所名稱 | Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations |
| 指導教授 | Gimello, Robert |
| 畢業年度 | 2007 |
| 附註項 | 1544p |
| 關鍵詞 | 佛性=Buddhahood=Buddha-gotra=Buddha Nature=Buddha-dhatu; 佛教人物=Buddhist; 法界=Dharmadhatu; 修行方法=修行法門=Practice; 說一切有部=Sarvastivada |
| 摘要 | Previous scholarship on Buddha-bodies has given excessive, teleological pride-of-place to the doctrine of trikāya ("three bodies"), and as a result, has paid insufficient attention to a broad range of other relevant ideas, especially ideas about bodies of beings other than Buddhas, or bodies not named kāya. As a result, our received history of ideas about the body in Buddhism is fundamentally inaccurate. This dissertation therefore proposes a through revision of this history. Most notably, there is not sufficient evidence to believe that any significant concept of positive, adequate, ideal embodiment of Buddhist liberation is entertained in the period down to the close of the Pāli canon. Inscriptional evidence strongly suggests that the earliest identifiable such positive embodiment of Buddhahood is to be found in the relics of the Buddha. The very notion of positive, adequate embodiment of Buddhahood therefore seems to originate in relic-centred cultic practice around the turn of the Common Era. Subsequently, in Mahāyāna and the Mainstream "Schools", a whole range of new ideas about ideal embodiments emerges, including, centrally, the ideas that Buddhahood is most veritably embodied in gnosis (bodhi, jñāna ); or in the "Absolute" (dharmadhātu etc.); or (eventually, immortally) in adamant (vajrakāya). Early Mahāyāna texts are more central than has been recognised to the rise of new, positive ideas embodiments, which are connected with a broader Mahāyāna shift towards greater emphasis on immanence. Mainstream "Schools" most likely follow rather than pioneer these developments. Subsequently, still further development gives rise to a range of further ideas among which is trikāya doctrine itself, and the significance of trikāya doctrine is very different when regarded in the context of this revised narrative. The arguments of this dissertation should thus bring about a fundamental revision of our understanding of ideas about Buddha-bodies and the history of their development, while also bearing broader implications for our understanding of the relationship between the Mahāyāna and Mainstream materials, especially those of the "Schools" (esp. Mahāsāmghika and Sarvâstivāda). The Buddhist ideas studied here also have implications for broader comparative questions, including the nature and significance of the problematic of embodiment in cross-cultural perspective. |
| ISBN | 9780549280200 |
| 點閱次數 | 651 |
| 建檔日期 | 2008.04.11 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.03.29 |
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