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| An Uncommon Narrative Opening: Five Perfections in Tantra of the Sun | ||
| 作者 | Lai, Elaine (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies |
| 卷期 | v.4 Series Four |
| 出版日期 | 2023 |
| 頁次 | 61 - 109 |
| 出版者 | Institute of Buddhist Studies |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.shin-ibs.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Berkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | five perfections; five excellences; nidāna; Dzogchen; Heart Essence; seminal heart; time; narrative |
| 摘要 | Shifting nidānas in Buddhist scripture signal different possibilities for what it means to embody the time of liberation, in short, buddhahood. This paper provides a close reading of the nidāna of an important, never-before studied Dzogchen Heart Essence (Tib. Snying thig) tantra called Secret Tantra of the Sun: Blazing Luminous Matrix of Samantabhadrī (Tib. Kun tu bzang mo klong gsal ’bar ma nyi ma’i gsang rgyud). I contextualize Tantra of the Sun and its transmission history and then provide a section-by-section translation and analysis of its nidāna with cross-citations from other chapters of the tantra to clarify key terminology, such as the meaning of “matrix” (Tib. klong). I argue that Samantabhadrī’s awakened speech is so powerful that it catalyzes the primordial ground to manifest as ground appearances (Tib. gzhi snang), demonstrating that awakened speech has the potential to disrupt samsaric time. Tantra of the Sun repeats and varies the five perfections in creative ways that explicitly perform the mirroring of text, to cosmos, to body that we find in tantric literature more generally, illustrating that the time of liberation is pervasively entextualized into the subtle body through Samantabhadrī’s speech. |
| 目次 | ABSTRACT 61 Keywords 62 INTRODUCTION: FIVE PERFECTIONS 62 INTRODUCTION TO OUR PROTAGONIST: TANTRA OF THE SUN 75 TANTRA OF THE SUN: OPENING HOMAGE 83 TANTRA OF THE SUN’S UNCOMMON NIDĀNA 90 FIVE PERFECTIONS AS A STRUCTURING DEVICE FOR THE ENTIRE TANTRA 96 BUDDHA-NATURE AND THE GURU 101 CONCLUSION: BUDDHIST TEXTUALIZATION OF TIMELESS TIME 106 |
| ISSN | 08973644 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 134 |
| 建檔日期 | 2023.12.26 |
| 更新日期 | 2023.12.26 |
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