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| Renunciant Stories Across Traditions: A Novel Approach to the Acts of Thomas and the Buddhist Jātakas | ||
| 作者 | Kunu, Vishma (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2018.01 |
| 頁次 | 190 |
| 出版者 | Temple University |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.temple.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Philadelphia, PA, US [費城, 賓夕法尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 學位類別 | 博士 |
| 校院名稱 | Temple University |
| 系所名稱 | Religion |
| 指導教授 | Vasiliki Limberis |
| 摘要 | This study brings excerpts from the Acts of Thomas (Act 1.11-16 and Act 3.30-33) together with two Buddhist jātakas (Udaya Jātaka - #458 and Visavanta Jātaka -#69) to consider how stories might have been transmitted in the early centuries of the common era in a milieu of mercantile exchange on the Indian Ocean. The Acts of Thomas is a 3rd century CE Syriac Christian text concerned with the apostle Thomas proselytizing in India. The jātakas are popular didactic narratives with a pronounced oral dimension that purport to be accounts of the Buddha’s previous lives. Syriac Christians possessed knowledge about Indian religious practices linked to renunciation, and it is plausible that they adapted Buddhist jātakas to convey Christian ideas in the account of Thomas journeying to India and converting people there. Epigraphic evidence from the western Deccan in India attests to yavana, or Greek, patronage of Buddhist institutions in cosmopolitan settings where ideas and commodities circulated. Against the grain in scholarship on early Christianity that tends to privilege Latin and Greek sources, this project moves the lens of analysis eastward to consider Indian influence on early Christianity as expressed in the Acts of Thomas. A literary comparison of the texts under consideration with reference to the historical and cultural context of exchange reveals similar models of renunciant practices in Buddhism and Christianity that establishes new grounds for consideration of interconnectivity across ‘East’ and ‘West.’ |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/3131 |
| 點閱次數 | 523 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.03.08 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.03.08 |
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