Secular Buddhist Lineages
The Sakyas and their Royal Descendants in Local Buddhist Legitimation Strategies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12908533 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Max Deeg (0000-0001-5703-2976, Cardiff University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 189-207 |
| Publication date | 2012-05-23 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions of South Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1751-2689 • E-ISSN: 1751-2697 |
| Publisher | Equinox Publishing (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1558/rosa.v5i1/2.189 |
| OpenAlex | W2081320450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Although the Buddhists, according to the logic of the life-story of the Buddha, could not claim a direct lineage of descent from the Exalted One himself—his only direct offspring, Rahula, having become a celibate monk—the family background of the Buddha could not escape the general temptation to create a family connection, as in the case of other important religious or cultural founding figures. This paper traces and discusses these attempts, expressed in and transformed into narratives, which are spread across a broad variety of Buddhist sources. It argues that the urge to create such (mostly incomplete) lineages resulted from another necessity: that of political and religious legitimation
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Buddhism · Descent (aeronautics · Gautama Buddha · Genealogy · Geography · Legitimation · Lineage (genetic · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Temptation · Theology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Indian and Buddhist Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious Studies
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |