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| Historical Background of the Buddhist Mindfulness in Theravada Tipitaka Tradition | ||
| 作者 | Sajjana, Ashin (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Lumbini Prabha |
| 卷期 | v.4 |
| 出版日期 | 2019.05 |
| 頁次 | 75 - 83 |
| 出版者 | Lumbini Buddhist University |
| 出版者網址 | https://lbu.edu.np/ |
| 出版地 | Lumbini, Nepal [藍毗尼, 尼泊爾] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Mrs. Ashin Sajjana is Buddhist Scholar, The Languages and Culture, Sharda University, Greater Noida, UP. India. |
| 摘要 | Where did the term mindfulness come from? Author Gethin elucidates about the word of mindfulness in accordance with T. W. Rhys’s translation it was sati in Pali of Buddhist text. Within the Brahmanical tradition of ancient India, the word sati-(mindfulness) had connotations of “remembrance” and “recollection”. Within a Buddhist context however, it did not refer to historical or chronological memory per say, but to a state in which one recollects or remembers the activity that “one is engaged in, in the present moment.” This meaning of sati is to an extent evident in the pre-eminent contemporary definition of mindfulness formulated by Kabat-Zinn, who explicitly cited the term sati as the origin of his formulation, as “the awareness that arises through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and nonjudgmentally to the unfolding of experience moment by moment.” However, it is interesting to consider the process through which mindfulness was selected as an appropriate translation of sati. In Rhys Davids’ translation of the Mahaparinibbana Sutta, mindfulness was rendered as “mental activity’ and simply “thought” but it was only with Rhys Davids’ translation of the Mahasatipatthana Sutta that he settled on the term mindfulness. Indeed, as others have pointed out, sati is the most difficult word to translate. For example, Shapiro et al. suggested that the term is too cognitive and cerebral, and overlooks qualities of emotional warmth present in the original, and thus a better translation might be “heartmindfulness”. Moreover, the word mindfulness is semantically confusing while one can appreciate the value of a word that is the antonym of being mindless, the notion of a full mind arguably misses the mark. |
| 目次 | References 82 |
| ISSN | 26160196 (P); 27174603 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 130 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.05.17 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.05.17 |
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