| 摘要 | Chapters: Buddhist Poetry, Reverberation of Sound, Longchen Nyingthig, Paracanonical Texts, Chinese Buddhist Canon, Vima Nyingtik, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Seventeen Tantras, Mahāvastu, the Mirror of the Heart of Vajrasattva, the New Meditation Handbook, Ocean of Definitive Meaning, Shining Relics of Enlightened Body, Tōdaiji Fujumonkō, Gangōji Garan Engi, Bodhipathapradīpa, Buddhavacana, Buddhist Hybrid English, Samantapasadika, the Open Road: the Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 110. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Buddhist texts can be categorized in a number of ways. The Western terms "scripture" and "canonical" are applied to Buddhism in inconsistent ways by Western scholars: for example, one authority refers to "scriptures and other canonical texts", while another says that scriptures can be categorized into canonical, commentarial and pseudo-canonical. A rather more definite division is that between Buddhavacana (the Word of the Buddha) and other texts. The former, including the Sutras (Sanskrit) or Suttas (Pali), are held to be the literal words of the historical Buddha or close approximations thereof. The latter are the various commentaries on canonical texts and other treatises on the Dharma, as well as collections of quotations, histories, grammars, and other texts. Sometimes texts that are considered commentaries by some are regarded by others as Buddhavacana. Within Buddhavacana, there is a chronological difference between the early Buddhist texts (e.g. the Pali Canon and the Agamas), and the Mahayana sutras. Whereas some scholars believe that some portions of the Pali Canon and Agamas could contain the actual substance of the historical teachings (and possibly even the words) of the Buddha, this is not the case for the Mahayana...http://booksllc.net/?id=530921 |
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