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| Checking the Heavenly ‘Bank Account of Karma': Cognitive Metaphors for Karma in Western Perception and Early Theravāda Buddhism | ||
| 作者 | Schlieter, Jens |
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| 出處題名 | Religion |
| 卷期 | v.43 n.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2013 |
| 頁次 | 463 - 486 |
| 出版者 | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.tandf.co.uk/ |
| 出版地 | Abingdon, UK [阿賓登, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author affiliations Institute for the Science of Religion & Center for Global Studies, University of Berne , Vereinsweg 23, 3012 , Bern , Switzerland Author notes Jens Schlieter - This article was originally published with incorrect submission and acceptance dates. This version has been corrected. |
| 關鍵詞 | karma; Buddhism; religions; ‘karma-account’ metaphor; European Buddhology; conceptual metaphor theory; works-righteousness |
| 摘要 | To visualize the accumulation of good and bad karma in terms of credit or debt in a bank account is a common feature in works on Buddhism and other Indian traditions. Applying conceptual metaphor theory, this article tracks the metaphorical framework of understanding karma as a kind of ‘heavenly bank account’ back to its roots in early European scholarship. Based on a comparison with metaphors for karma to be found in Pāli texts of the Theravāda tradition, namely, the analogies of ripening, inheritance, and the dark/bright dichotomy, this article argues that the ‘bank-account’ imagery differs in significant – if subtle – respects from these emic metaphors, displaying certain Judeo-Christian preconceptions of moral bookkeeping, sin, and salvation. |
| ISSN | 0048721X (P); 10961151 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 738 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.01.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.12.16 |
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