Puns on the Humane King
Analogy and Application in an East Asian Apocryphon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3959409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles D Orzech (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 109 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 17 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/604333 |
| OpenAlex | W2087064410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Prajhdpdramitd Sitra for Humane Kings Who Wish to Protect Their States was once one of the most popular of East Asian Buddhist apocrypha. Modern readers can all too easily dismiss the text as a transparent ploy of Chinese Buddhists to curry favor with the government. Yet, an examination of the puns and analogies which are central to the text reveals a sophisticated vision of the salvific activity of kings and bodhisattvas, and the performance of the esoteric rites prescribed in the text can themselves be considered puns
Analogy · Linguistics · Pun · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 1995 - 2020 (26) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |