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| Book Review: "Die Lichtmetaphorik im frühen Mahāyāna-Buddhismus," by Claudia Weber | ||
| 作者 | Roesler, Ulrike |
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| 出處題名 | Indo-Iranian Journal |
| 卷期 | v.51 n.1 |
| 出版日期 | 2008.03 |
| 頁次 | 23 - 27 |
| 出版者 | Brill |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.brill.com/ |
| 出版地 | Leiden, the Netherlands [萊登, 荷蘭] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 德文=German |
| 附註項 | With the completion of Volume 51 (2008), this journal is no longer published by Springer. This journal is now published by Brill Publishers. |
| 摘要 | Claudia Weber’s study on “Light Metaphors in Early Mah¯ay¯ana Buddhism” deals with an important element in Buddhist literature: the imagery of light, darkness and fire with all their meanings and implications. In the Nik¯ayas, light and fire seem to be the most frequent upam¯anas next to water and animal metaphors,1 and one may intuitively assume that light imagery gets even more prominent in Mah¯ay¯ana literature. Therefore a study of this topic is highly welcome. The book presents the results of a DFG research project carried out at the University of Bonn. It is addressed to a broad readership, including scholars of Indian Studies and Religious Studies.2 The study is based on sources ranging from the As. t.as¯ahasrik¯aprajñ¯ap¯aramit¯a as the earliest work to the La˙nk¯avat¯aras¯utra (5th century?). They comprise eight of the S¯utras known as the “nine dharmas” in the Nepalese tradition (excluding the Guhyasam¯ajas¯utra) and the Sukh¯avat¯?vy¯uhas¯utra. The light metaphors in these Mah¯ay¯ana S¯utras are selectively compared with the canonical literature of non-Mah¯ay¯ana schools, with Buddhist works like the avad¯ana collections, the Abhidharmako’sa and the “Yoga Manual” (“Yogalehrbuch”) from...... |
| ISSN | 00197246 (P); 15728536 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 891 |
| 建檔日期 | 2009.11.27 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.12.17 |
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