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| The Notion of Solitude in Pali Buddhist Literature: Finding a Space in the Crowd | ||
| 作者 | Weerasekera, Indaka Nishan (著) |
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| 出版日期 | 2024.06.27 |
| 頁次 | 256 |
| 出版者 | Bloomsbury Academic |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/academic/ |
| 出版地 | New York, NY, US [紐約, 紐約州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Indaka Nishan Weerasekera is an independent scholar of Buddhist Studies, UK. |
| 摘要 | Exploring how notions of solitude in Pali literature are encompassed in various literary forms, such as stock formulae, poetry, narrative, and imagery, this book includes close analysis of some of the most famous Buddhist verses about solitary practice. Indaka Nishan Weerasekera considers how solitude is valued as one significant aspect of the Buddhist path, including how the imagery of landscape, especially the forest, serves to both inspire solitary practice as well as functions as a metaphor for meditation. The author employs a cross-section of primary sources to explore the practical and psychological aspects of solitude in relation to Buddhist meditation, as well as relational/attitudinal concepts such as renunciation or desirelessness, independence, and self-reliance. This ’lonely’ aspect of the Buddhist path sits alongside the ’communal’ aspect of the Buddhist teachings. Together, they serve to maintain monastic harmony, while the ’social’ aspect preserves monastic relations with wider society. |
| ISBN | 9781350426061 (Paperback) |
| 點閱次數 | 1 |
| 建檔日期 | 2025.01.16 |
| 更新日期 | 2025.02.26 |
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