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| A Buddhist God? | ||
| 作者 | Loy, David R. |
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| 出處題名 | Tikkun |
| 卷期 | v.29 n.3 Summer |
| 出版日期 | 2014 |
| 出版者 | Duke University Press |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.dukeupress.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Durham, NC, US [德罕, 北卡羅來納州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | Is it right to describe Buddhism as atheistic? Many people do, pointing to the fact that Buddhism doesn’t refer to a creator God. Yet it’s not so simple. In the earliest Buddhist texts, the Buddha tells some stories that make fun of Brahma, who thinks he is the supreme deity. But in some versions of Mahayana Buddhism, the Buddha himself eventually became elevated from “a person who is awake” (the literal meaning of Buddha) to a more celestial figure. Whereas Shakyamuni (the historical Buddha) emphasized the importance of “being a lamp unto yourself,” it was believed that Amitabha Buddha could intercede at the time of death and take us to his Pure Land in the West, far beyond our world. This led to the development of more devotional types of Buddhism, which still predominate in East Asia. In some ways this Pure Land Buddhism seems more similar to the Abrahamic religions than to the original teachings of the Buddha as preserved in the Pali Canon, the core collection of early Buddhist scriptures. |
| ISSN | 08879982 (P); 21640041 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1215/08879982-2713358 |
| 點閱次數 | 574 |
| 建檔日期 | 2020.11.24 |
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