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| On Careful Distinction between Usages of Dharma/Dhamma | ||
| 作者 | Bamford, Geoffrey |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies |
| 卷期 | v.6 |
| 出版日期 | 2014 |
| 頁次 | 35 - 55 |
| 出版者 | Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/how-get-here |
| 出版地 | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | This paper briefly reviews the early history of the term dharma/dhamma, focusing primarily on Buddhist sources. Then it considers implications for the contemporary understanding of Buddhism, e.g. in relation to Hinduism. It first establishes some basic assumptions about antique, polysemic terms like dharma and about Indic culture. After a quick glance at Vedic usage, it then maps the semantic field of dhamma in the Pali sutta material. Next, it considers how thereafter the sāvakas sought to systematise and package the notion of dhamma. After that, it reviews Asoka’s innovations. Moving on to Brahmanical sources, it mentions some recent research on the Dharma-sūtras & -śāstras, then looks rapidly at the Epic literature. On this evidence, it offers some preliminary generalisations about early Buddhist and Brahmanical thinking and practice, as revealed in ideas of dharma/dhamma. These two cultural currents developed in a dialectical relationship, each seeking progressively to confute and/or co-opt the other. The Buddhist usage is grounded in a psychological and the Brahminical in a social vision; the Buddhist usage is primarily descriptive, the Brahmanical prescriptive. Indian Buddhism emerges in a context conditioned by Brahmanism, just as later Hinduism is conditioned by Buddhism. So, one can usefully compare the two traditions, e.g. by analysing the various usages of dharma/dhamma in them. But such analysis hardly shows them to be ‘essentially identical’. Attempts to de- emphasise what is distinctive about Buddhism seem counter-intuitive. They are also counter-productive, particularly in relation to India’s cultural diplomacy. |
| ISSN | 20471076 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 165 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.06.01 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.09.06 |
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