Ekottarika-?gama Discourse Without Parallels
From Perception of Impermanence to the Pure Land
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11468612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bhikkhu Anālayo (0000-0003-4169-1330, Universität Hamburg, corresponding author), Anālayo Bhikkhu |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 125-134 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-31 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Buddhist Studies Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0265-2897 • E-ISSN: 1747-9681 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/bsrv.36757 |
| OpenAlex | W2911157959 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
With the present paper I study and translate a discourse in the Ekottarika-?gama preserved in Chinese of which no parallel in other discourse collections is known. This situation relates to the wider issue of what significance to accord to the absence of parallels from the viewpoint of the early Buddhist oral transmission. The main topic of the discourse itself is perception of impermanence, which is of central importance in the early Buddhist scheme of the path for cultivating liberating insight. A description of the results of such practice in this Ekottarika-?gama discourse has a somewhat ambivalent formulation that suggests a possible relation to the notion of rebirth in the Pure Abodes, suddh?v?sa. This notion, attested in a P?li discourse, in turn might have provided a precedent for the aspiration, prominent in later Buddhist traditions, to be reborn in the Pure Land
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Art · Buddhism · Epistemology · Impermanence · Linguistics · Literature · Parallels · Sociology · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |