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| Dharma and 'Custom': Semantic Persistence, Semantic Change and the Anxieties of the Principled Few | ||
| 作者 | Bowles, Adam |
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| 出處題名 | Religions of South Asia |
| 卷期 | v.9 n.2 |
| 出版日期 | 2015 |
| 頁次 | 137 - 163 |
| 出版者 | Equinox Publishing Ltd. |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/ |
| 出版地 | Sheffield, UK [謝菲爾德, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Dr Adam Bowles is Senior Lecturer in Asian Religions at The University of Queensland in Australia. |
| 關鍵詞 | Atharvaveda; custom; dharma; Dharmaśāstra |
| 摘要 | This article does three things. First, it argues that the usage of dharma in the sense of ‘customary practice’, which is found in compounds such as deśadharma and kuladharma, can be traced back to the Atharvaveda. Second, it argues that in the Dharmaśāstra tradition this usage of the word dharma as ‘custom’ ought to be distinguished from ācāra, which is also often taken in the sense of ‘custom’, because ācāra frequently implies a hieratic sense of ‘customary behaviour’, especially in its association with the cultured practices of particular elites (the sat, sādhu, or śiṣṭa). Therefore, dharma in the usage this article is concerned with is a broader term for ‘custom’ than ācāra. And, third, it suggests that when the Dharmaśāstra writers restricted the currency of such customary dharmas to cases where existing sacred texts (śruti or smṛti) could not be called upon, they were reaffirming that such dharmas were worldly rather than transcendent, and not to be confused with the transcendent dharma the principled few now identified with these sacred texts—a development attributable to other changes that shifted the word dharma to the very centre of brahmanic ideology. |
| 目次 | The ‘Customs’ of Regions and Peoples 141 The ‘Customs’ (Acara) of the Good and Other ‘Customs’: Semantic Persistence, Semantic Change and the Problem of Dharma as Custom 149 Conclusion 159 Acknowledgments 160 References 160 |
| ISSN | 17512689 (P); 17512697 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 60 |
| 建檔日期 | 2016.12.01 |
| 更新日期 | 2020.05.07 |
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