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| From Scholarly Object to Religious Text : the Story of the Lotus-sutra in the West | ||
| 作者 | Deeg, Max |
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| 出處題名 | The Journal of Oriental Studies |
| 卷期 | v.22 |
| 出版日期 | 2012.08 |
| 頁次 | 133 - 153 |
| 出版者 | The Institute of Oriental Philosophy=東洋哲學研究所 |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.totetu.org/ |
| 出版地 | 東京, 日本 [Tokyo, Japan] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | 1. Max Deeg, Professor, Cardiff University, UK |
| 摘要 | This paper will investigate the history of Western research and reception of the Lotus-sËtra. It will in particular address the question how Western perception of this sËtra changed from an object of academic research in the mid-19th century, initiated and instigated by the research on and the French translation of the text by Eugène Burnouf, to a perception of the sËtra as a religious text of its own right. I will trace this change of perception by sketching out the history of reception which shows that the “popularity” of the Lotus was restricted to a relatively small circle of Buddhist and Religious Studies scholars and Christian missionaries until a stronger focus on East Asian Buddhism—not least in its Japanese forms—led to the “discovery” of the text as an agent which influenced the religious culture of a large part of Asia. This is reflected in the rich translation history of the text which moves from academic purist “Sanskritism” to a living textual tradition in the form of translations made from Kumåraj¥va’s Chinese on behalf of Japanese Buddhist denominations. The history of the Lotus and its investigation can be taken as a paradigmatic example of a 14 from scholarly object to religious text shift of Western views of Buddhism from the early period in the 19th century into modern times. |
| ISSN | 09155309 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 1031 |
| 建檔日期 | 2013.07.22 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.08.18 |
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