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| Comparative Buddhism: Yana, Schools of Buddhism | ||
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| 出版日期 | 2010.09.15 |
| 頁次 | 44 |
| 出版者 | Books LLC |
| 出版者網址 | http://booksllc.net/index.cfm |
| 出版地 | Memphis, TN, US [曼非斯, 田納西州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Chapters: Yana. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. 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: Part of a series onBuddhism Portal of BuddhismOutline of Buddhism Yna (Sanskrit and Pli: "vehicle") refers to a mode or method of spiritual practice in Buddhism, and in particular to divisions of various schools of Buddhism according to their type of practice. In form, yna is a neuter action noun (comparable to an English gerund) derived from the Sanskrit root y- meaning "go" or "move", using any means of locomotion, by land or sea. Hence it may be translated "going", "moving", "marching, a march", "riding, a ride", "travelling, travel", "journey" and so on. The word came to be extended to refer to any means used to ease or speed travel: hence such meanings as "vehicle", "carriage", "vessel", "wagon", "ship", and so on, depending on context. "Vehicle" is often used as a preferred translation as the word that provides the least in the way of presuppositions about the mode of travel. In spiritual uses, the word yna acquires many metaphorical meanings, discussed below. In the Mahparinibbna Sutta (1.33-34), Shakyamuni Buddha relates a profound teaching story on 'vehicles' of conveyance utilizing the sacred river Ganges, all of which may be engaged as a metaphor for "yana" and a gradual or direct path: 1.33 And then the Lord came to the River Ganges. And just then, the river was so full that a crow could drink out of it. And some people were looking for a boat, and some were looking for a raft, and some were binding together a raft of reeds to get to the other side. But the Lord, as swiftly as a strong man might stretch out his flexed arm or flex it again, vanished from this side of the Ganges and reappeared with his order of monks on the other shore.1.34 And the Lord saw those people who were looking ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=515610 |
| ISBN | 9781156427873 (pbk); 1156427878 (pbk) |
| 點閱次數 | 207 |
| 建檔日期 | 2010.12.31 |
| 更新日期 | 2011.01.19 |
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