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| Violent Karma Stories in Contemporary Sinhala Buddhism | ||
| 作者 | Stewart, James |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Buddhist Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.27 |
| 出版日期 | 2020 |
| 頁次 | 177 - 210 |
| 出版者 | Department of History & Religious Studies Program , The Pennsylvania State University |
| 出版者網址 | https://history.la.psu.edu/ |
| 出版地 | University Park, PA, US |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author affiliation: Deakin University |
| 摘要 | Buddhism is a religion normally respected for its message of non-violence. In this article I will discuss how images of violence are used as a means to compel Buddhists to act in accordance with Buddhist ethical principles. This will be shown through the examination of a contemporary newspaper series from the popular Sinhala language Lankādīpa Irida periodical. In it, we find a series of karma stories that illustrate how examples of violence can be found in modern Buddhistic narratives, both in written and pictorial forms. In this article it will be argued that these modern narratives have a precedent in much earlier, and in some cases ancient, Buddhist writings and art. I will argue that these modern narratives deviate from canonical karma stories in that they focus on the maturation of karma in this life while the former focus on the afterlife. The purpose of these modern stories is to assure the reader of the reality of karma and to entertain the reader with gruesome stories that feature the death of moral transgressors. |
| 目次 | Introduction 178 Methodological Considerations 180 Violence in the Taksalāva Series 183 Violence committed against the victim 185 Violence committed against the transgressor 189 Comparing the Modern Karma Stories to the Canon 193 Images of violence in Theravāda Buddhism 194 The mechanism of karma in the canon 198 Abbreviations 201 Appendix 1 202 Appendix 2 – Example Images 205 Works Cited 207 |
| ISSN | 10769005 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 214 |
| 建檔日期 | 2021.03.06 |
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