Bryan Geoffrey Levman
Biographic Data
| ID | 6323520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Geoffrey Levman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Levman |
| SIGNATURE | LEVMAN B G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Language Theory, Phonology and Etymology in Buddhism and their relationship to Brahmanism
The Buddha considered names of things and people to be arbitrary designations, with their meaning created by agreement. The early suttas show clearly that inter alia, names, perceptions, feelings, thinking, conceptions and mental proliferations were all conditioned dhammas which, when their nature is misunderstood, led to the creation of a sense of ‘I’, as well as craving, clinging and afflictions. Although names were potentially afflictive and ‘…
Cultural Remnants of the Indigenous Peoples in the Buddhist Scriptures
While the linguistic influence of India’s indigenous languages on the Indo- Aryan language (IA) is well understood, the cultural impact of the autochthonous Munda, Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman speaking peoples is much harder to evaluate, due to the lack of indigenous coeval records, and later historicization of the Buddha’s life and teachings. Nevertheless, there are cultural remnants of the indigenous belief systems discoverable in the Buddhist s…
Language Theory, Phonology and Etymology in Buddhism and their relationship to Brahmanism
The Buddha considered names of things and people to be arbitrary designations, with their meaning created by agreement. The early suttas show clearly that inter alia, names, perceptions, feelings, thinking, conceptions and mental proliferations were all conditioned dhammas which, when their nature is misunderstood, led to the creation of a sense of ‘I’, as well as craving, clinging and afflictions. Although names were potentially afflictive and ‘…
Cultural Remnants of the Indigenous Peoples in the Buddhist Scriptures
While the linguistic influence of India’s indigenous languages on the Indo- Aryan language (IA) is well understood, the cultural impact of the autochthonous Munda, Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman speaking peoples is much harder to evaluate, due to the lack of indigenous coeval records, and later historicization of the Buddha’s life and teachings. Nevertheless, there are cultural remnants of the indigenous belief systems discoverable in the Buddhist s…
Cultural Remnants of the Indigenous Peoples in the Buddhist Scriptures
While the linguistic influence of India’s indigenous languages on the Indo- Aryan language (IA) is well understood, the cultural impact of the autochthonous Munda, Dravidian and Tibeto-Burman speaking peoples is much harder to evaluate, due to the lack of indigenous coeval records, and later historicization of the Buddha’s life and teachings. Nevertheless, there are cultural remnants of the indigenous belief systems discoverable in the Buddhist s…
Language Theory, Phonology and Etymology in Buddhism and their relationship to Brahmanism
The Buddha considered names of things and people to be arbitrary designations, with their meaning created by agreement. The early suttas show clearly that inter alia, names, perceptions, feelings, thinking, conceptions and mental proliferations were all conditioned dhammas which, when their nature is misunderstood, led to the creation of a sense of ‘I’, as well as craving, clinging and afflictions. Although names were potentially afflictive and ‘…
Buddhism (2 works) · Gautama Buddha (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Aryan race (1 works)