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Remarks About the History of the Sarvāstivāda Buddhism
ROCZNIK ORIENTALISTYCZNY, T. LXVII, Z. 1, 2014, (s. 255–268) CHARLES WILLEMEN Remarks about the History of the Sarvāstivāda Buddhism Abstract Study about the history of a specific Buddhist monastic lineage known as “Sarvāstivāda” based on an overview of the history of its literature. Keywords: Sarvāstivāda, Buddhism, schism, Mahāyāna, Abhidharma, India, Gandhāra All scholars agree that the Sarvāstivāda (“Proclaiming that Everything Exists”) Buddhism was strong in India’s north-western cultural area. All agree that there was the first and seminal schism between the Sthaviravāda and the Mahāsāṅghika. However, many questions still remain to be answered. For instance, when did the first schism take place? Where exactly in India’s north-western area? We know what the Theravāda tradition has to say, but this is the voice of just one Buddhist tradition. Jibin 罽賓 The Chinese term Jibin is used to designate the north-western cultural area of India. For many years it has been maintained by Buddhist scholars that it is a phonetic rendering of a Prakrit word for Kaśmīra. In 2009 Seishi Karashima wrote that Jibin is a Chinese phonetic rendering of Kaśpīr, a Gāndhārī form of Kaśmīra.1 In 1993 Fumio Enomoto postulated that Jibin is a phonetic rendering of Kapiśa (Kāpiśī, Bagram).2 Historians have long held a different view. In his article of 1996 János Harmatta said that in the seventh century Jibin denoted the Kapiśa-Gandhāra area.3 For this opinion he relied on 1 Karashima 2009: 56–57. 2 Enomoto 1993: 265–266. 3 Harmatta (1996) 1999: 371, 373–379. 256 CHARLES WILLEMEN Édouard Chavannes’s work published in 1903. -
Text, History, and Philosophy Abhidharma Across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions
iii Text, History, and Philosophy Abhidharma across Buddhist Scholastic Traditions Edited by Bart Dessein Weijen Teng LEIDEN | BOSTON For use by the Author only | © 2016 Koninklijke Brill NV ContentsContents vii Contents Preface ix List of Figure and Tables xi Notes on Contributors xii Introduction 1 Part 1 Mātṛkā and Abhidharma Terminologies 1 Abhidharma and Indian thinking 29 Johannes Bronkhorst 2 Abhidharmic Elements in Gandhāran Mahāyāna Buddhism: Groups of Four and the abhedyaprasādas in the Bajaur Mahāyāna Sūtra 47 Andrea Schlosser and Ingo Strauch 3 Interpretations of the Terms ajjhattaṃ and bahiddhā: From the Pāli Nikāyas to the Abhidhamma 108 Tamara Ditrich 4 Some Remarks on the Proofs of the “Store Mind” (Ālayavijñāna) and the Development of the Concept of Manas 146 Jowita Kramer Part 2 Intellectual History 5 Sanskrit Abhidharma Literature of the Mahāvihāravāsins 169 Lance S. Cousins 6 The Contribution of Saṃghabhadra to Our Understanding of Abhidharma Doctrines 223 KL Dhammajoti For use by the Author only | © 2016 Koninklijke Brill NV viii Contents 7 Pratītyasamutpāda in the Translations of An Shigao and the Writings of His Chinese Followers 248 Eric M. Greene 8 Abhidharma in China: Reflections on ‘Matching Meanings’ and Xuanxue 279 Bart Dessein 9 Kuiji’s Abhidharmic Recontextualization of Chinese Buddhism 296 Weijen Teng 10 Traces of Abhidharma in the bSam-gtan mig-sgron (Tibet, Tenth Century) 314 Contents Dylan Esler Contents vii Preface ix List of Figure and Tables xi Notes on Contributors xii Introduction 1 Part 1 Mātṛkā -
Dbet Alpha PDF Version © 2017 All Rights Reserved the ESSENTIALS of the EIGHT TRADITIONS
dBET Alpha PDF Version © 2017 All Rights Reserved THE ESSENTIALS OF THE EIGHT TRADITIONS THE CANDLE OF THE LATTER DHARMA BDK English Tripitaka 107-1, III The Essentials of the Eight Traditions by Gyonen Translated from the Japanese by Leo M. Pruden The Candle of the Latter Dharma by Saichö Translated from the Japanese by Robert Rhodes Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research 1994 © 1994 by Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai and Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transcribed in any form or by any means— electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise— without the prior written permission of the publisher. First Printing, 1994 ISBN: 0-9625618-7-8 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 94-066379 Published by Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research 2620 Warring Street Berkeley, California 94704 Printed in the United States of America A Message on the Publication of the English Tripitaka The Buddhist canon is said to contain eighty-four thousand different teachings. I believe that this is because the Buddha’s basic approach was to prescribe a different treatment for every spiritual ailment, much as a doctor prescribes a different medicine for every medical ailment. Thus his teachings were always appro priate for the particular suffering individual and for the time at which the teaching was given, and over the ages not one of his prescriptions has failed to relieve the suffering to which it was addressed. Ever since the Buddha’s Great Demise over twenty-five hundred years ago, his message of wisdom and compassion has spread throughout the world. -
Attacked by Māra. Tiantai Zhiyi (538-597) and the Birth Of
Attacked by Māra. Tiantai Zhiyi (538-597) and the Birth of Chinese Buddhist Meditative Demonology Guttorm Norberg Gundersen Master Thesis (60stp.) East Asian Culture and History (EAST4591) Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages Faculty of Humanities UNIVERSITY OF OSLO June 1st, 2017 II Attacked by Māra. Tiantai Zhiyi (538-597) and the Birth of Chinese Buddhist Meditative Demonology Guttorm Norberg Gundersen III Copyright: Guttorm Norberg Gundersen 2017 Attacked by Māra. Tiantai Zhiyi (538-597) and the Birth of Chinese Buddhist Meditative Demonology Guttorm Norberg Gundersen http://www.duo.uio.no Print: Webergs Printshop IV Til Pappa V Abstract This study deals with the emergence of the concept of “Māra disturbance” (móshì 魔事) in Buddhist meditation in sixth century China. It argues that the influential Chinese Buddhist master Zhìyǐ 智顗 (538-597) of the Tiāntái 天台 tradition seems to be the first to systematically discuss the idea that practitioners of meditation may be targeted by the Buddhist arch-demon Māra. The study takes as its textual focus the “Explanation of the Sequential Dharma Gates of the Perfection of Dhyāna” (Shì chánbōluómì cìdì fǎmén 釋禪波羅密次第法門). This understudied treatise is one of the earliest extant systematic instructions on Buddhist meditation practice written by a Chinese monk, and as such is an important milestone in the history of Buddhist meditation in China. The study is therefore also a contribution to research on early Chinese Buddhist meditation. The concept of “Māra disturbance,” the study shows, draws on certain Buddhist and Chinese religious traditions, but was recast by Zhiyi. In the process it came to constitute what we call an alternative paradigm for understanding meditative experience. -
On Wonhyo's Enlightenment Sung-Bae Park
On Wonhyo's Enlightenment Sung-bae Park In contemporary phenomenological thought, the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has made widespread the hermeneutic methodology of etymological analysis, in order to uncover the hidden meaning of words, i. e., to bring the meaning of words from concealment into nonconcealment. Through etymological analysis one unlocks and unfolds the inner meaning of words and concepts by tracing them back to their originary and primordial verb roots. I would now like to apply this hermeneutical method of etymological analysis to the central concern of all Buddhist sects-the notion of "Enlightenment." In China, such terms as Wu (悟), Chueh (覚) or Chien-sheng (見 性) are em- ployed to express the experience of enlightenment. Whereas in Japan, the con- cept of enlightenment is conveyed by such terms as Kensho (見 性) or satori (悟 り). However, in colloquial Korean vocabulary, enlightent is communicated by the term Kkaech'im. The verbal root form of this term is Kkaech'ida meaning "to awaken." Again, the root may be etymologically analyzed into the archaic verb root Kkaeda, meanining (i) to awaken; (ii) to become sober; (iii) to become aware; (iv) to be hatched [born anew]; (v) to return to life; (vi) to wake up; (vii) to break. From this archaic root, there are principally two major derivative verbal roots, these being Kkaejida, meaning "having been broken" or "breakage," as well as Kkaech'ida, whose noun form, Kkaech'im, is the Korean word for "Enlightenment." What is especially of interest here is the relation between Kkaech'im as "en- lightenment" and Kkaejim as "brokenness." For the concept of enlightenment, in its Korean context, now assumes the meaning of "breaking," "brokenness," "breakage," "to break" or "break -through." At once, two questions thus arise here, namely (i) What is it that is "broken" in the enlightenment experieri- ence? and (ii) How, in fact, does this total breakage actually occur? We have asserted that in Korean Buddhism, a total breakage is the necessary -470- (14) On Wonhyo's Enlightenment (S. -
Master Wonhyo: an Overview of His Life and Teachings
Master Wonhyo An Overview of His Life and Teachings 1 Published by Diamond Sutra Recitation Group Publisher Kim, Jae-Woong Author Jeong, Byeong-Jo Printed and Bound by Samjung Munhwasa Chungjeong-ro 37-18, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul First print, December 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9797263-7-8 Note on Romanization The Romanization of Korean words in this book follows the McCune-Reischauer system, except in the case of prominent figures and place names for which alternative usages are better known. When you have read this booklet, please donate it to a library or school so that it can be shared with others. Thank you. 2 Contents I. Preface…………………………………………………………………………7 II. Historical Background………………………………………………………10 III. Wonhyo’s Early Life………………………………………………………..12 1. Chestnut Valley…………………………………………………………..12 2. Pursuing the Spiritual Path……………………………………………….13 IV. The Quest to Study Abroad………………………………………………...16 1. Wonhyo and Uisang………………………………………………………16 2. A Journey to the Tang…………………………………………………….19 3. Drinking Water from a Skull……………………………………………..20 V. Returning to Worldly Life…………………………………………………..24 1. Living with the People………………………………………………….24 2. An Encounter with Princess Yosok……………………………………...25 3. Princess Yosok and Solchong…………….……….……………………..29 4. Layman Sosong………………………………………………………….32 VI. Anecdotes from Wonhyo’s Life…………………………………………….34 1. Oeosa Temple (‘My Fish’ Temple)……………………………………..34 2. Master Tae-an and the Raccoon Cubs………………….………………..35 3. Saving a Thousand Monks from Death…….……………………………36 4. Flower Ornament Plains…………………………………………………38 5. Kwangdok and Omjang………………………………………………….40 6. Wonhyo Declines an Offering from the Heavens……………………...42 7. Master Wonhyo’s Masterpiece: Exposition of the Vajrasamadhi Sutra….43 3 VII. Following Buddha’s Path…………………………………………………..48 1. A Beacon that Burns Eternally………………………………………….48 2. -
Computational Thinking: a Case Study of Buddhist Terminology Using New Software Lewis Lancaster*
Journal of World Languages, 2014 Vol. 1, No. 1, 7–17, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21698252.2014.893674 Computational thinking: a case study of Buddhist terminology using new software Lewis Lancaster* Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Berkeley, USA With the advent of digital technology, there are radical changes sweeping through disciplines that cannot be resisted. It is part of this shift that is described by the term “Computational Thinking”. It is defined as the scholarly strategy of thinking at multi- ple levels of abstraction with the added use of the capacity of the computer to count and analyze complexity. As an example of “Computational Thinking”, I have used the digitized Korean version of the Chinese Buddhist canon, to explore an important term 本覺. The expression is usually translated as “Original Enlightenment” and is a major doctrinal teaching in East Asia. The analytic computation of the canon is further enhanced by the metadata tag of time, the purported date of translation. Providing temporal aspects to the computation gives us invaluable ways of analysis that would not be possible without the dating. The computation provides a glimpse of the history of the occurrences. Keywords: computational thinking; Buddhist canon; digital technology A new term has come into vogue among scholars –“Computational Thinking”.1 It is defined as the scholarly strategy of thinking at multiple levels of abstraction with the added use of the capacity of the computer to count and analyze complexity. In the Humanities, there is resistance to quantitative methods since the historic role of the field has been to work only with qualitative strategies. -
Santaraksita and Modern Philosophy
SANTARAKSITA AND MODERN PHILOSOPHY Marie-Louise Friquegnon William Paterson University The philosopher Santaraksita was born in Bengal, the son of the king, in the same family as Atisa.. Renouncing worldly honors, he became a monk. Eagerly pursuing knowledge, he became one of the greatest Buddhist philosopher of all time. Professor of philosophy and abbot at the famous university-monastery of Nalanda in north India, he analyzed and refuted many tenets of Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools. Summary: Santaraksita asserted nothing to be true on the absolute level. But on the relative level he claimed that all of reality was nothing other than mind. He arrived at his philosophical position in the following way. There are two possible candidates for the nature of reality, -material and mental. If reality is material, it must be made of parts. The smallest of these are said to be atoms. But if they are the smallest, they must be indivisible. However, if they are indivisible, they can have no extension. (For the only number which is indivisible is zero.) Nor can they have sides to attach to one another, for if they had sides, they would be divisible into those sides. So they cannot combine to make up larger objects. So it would seem that the only alternative is that reality is mental. It is, after all, impossible to deny awareness without utilizing awareness. But there are problems with the concept of mind and its relation to an object. Mind is either one or many, a unity or a plurality, one with its object or different. -
The Biographic and Poetic Dimensions in Gary Synder's Green
Western Michigan University ScholarWorks at WMU Dissertations Graduate College 8-2007 The Biographic and Poetic Dimensions in Gary Synder’s Green Buddhism Poetry: Cold Mountain, Mountains and Rivers Without End, and Danger on Peaks Byoungkook Park Western Michigan University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations Part of the Buddhist Studies Commons, Creative Writing Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Park, Byoungkook, "The Biographic and Poetic Dimensions in Gary Synder’s Green Buddhism Poetry: Cold Mountain, Mountains and Rivers Without End, and Danger on Peaks" (2007). Dissertations. 903. https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/dissertations/903 This Dissertation-Open Access is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate College at ScholarWorks at WMU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Dissertations by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at WMU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE BIOGRAPHIC AND POETIC DIMENSIONS IN GARY SYNDER’S GREEN BUDDHISM POETRY: COLD MOUNTAIN. MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END. AND DANGER ON PEAKS by Byoungkook Park A Dissertation Submitted to the Faculty of The Graduate College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of English Dr. Daneen Wardrop, Advisor Western Michigan University Kalamazoo, Michigan August 2007 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. THE BIOGRAPHIC AND POETIC DIMENSIONS IN GARY SNYDER’S GREEN BUDDHISM POETRY: COLD MOUNTAIN POEMS. MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END. AND DANGER ON PEAKS Byoungkook Park, Ph.D. Western Michigan University, 2007 From the perspective of ecology, many scholars have examined works of Gary Synder, who is an environmental activist, a peasant-Buddhist, and one of the most beloved and significant poets in the East and West. -
Doctrinal Treatises Selected Works Doctrinal Treatises 諸敎學諸敎學 Doctrinaldoctrinal Treatisestreatises Selectedselected Worksworks Richard D
6 COLLECTED WORKS OF KOREAN BUDDHISM 6 SELECTED WORKS DOCTRINAL TREATISES SELECTED WORKS DOCTRINAL TREATISES 諸敎學諸敎學 DOCTRINALDOCTRINAL TREATISESTREATISES SELECTEDSELECTED WORKSWORKS RICHARD D. MCBRIDE II RICHARD D. CHARLES MULLER A. RICHARD D. MCBRIDE II RICHARD D. CHARLES MULLER A. COLLECTED WORKS OF KOREAN BUDDHISM VOLUME 6 諸敎學 DOCTRINAL TREATISES SELECTED WORKS Collected Works of Korean Buddhism, Vol. 6 Doctrinal Treatises: Selected Works Edited by A. Charles Muller Translated by A. Charles Muller, Richard D. McBride II Published by the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism Distributed by the Compilation Committee of Korean Buddhist Thought 45 Gyeonji-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 110-170, Korea / T. 82-2-725-0364 / F. 82-2-725-0365 First printed on June 25, 2012 Designed by ahn graphics ltd. Printed by Chun-il Munhwasa, Paju, Korea © 2012 by the Compilation Committee of Korean Buddhist Thought, Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism This project has been supported by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Republic of Korea. ISBN: 978-89-94117-09-6 ISBN: 978-89-94117-17-1 (Set) Printed in Korea COLLECTED WORKS OF KOREAN BUDDHISM VOLUME 6 諸敎學 DOCTRINAL TREATISES SELECTED WORKS INTRODUCED AND EDITED BY A. CHARLES MULLER TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY A. CHARLES MULLER & RICHARD D. MCBRIDE II i Preface to The Collected Works of Korean Buddhism At the start of the twenty-first century, humanity looked with hope on the dawning of a new millennium. A decade later, however, the global village still faces the continued reality of suffering, whether it is the slaughter of innocents in politically volatile regions, the ongoing economic crisis that currently roils the world financial system, or repeated natural disasters. -
The Mahāsāṃghikas and the Origin of Mahayana Buddhism: Evidence Provided in the *Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣāśāstra
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE The Mahāsāṃghikas and the Origin of Mahayana Buddhism: Evidence Provided in the *Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣāśāstra BART DESSEIN INTRODUCTION HE QUESTION whether or not the rise of Mahayana Buddhism occurred Twithin one particular school of Nikāya Buddhism—whereby the Mahāsāṃghikas are often credited with this important development—has been answered differently by various scholars in the field. A related ques- tion is in which geographical region did this development start. In favor of the claim that Mahayana Buddhism arose within the Mahāsāṃghika school seems to be the fact that some historical accounts connect the origin of this school to the so-called “five points of Mahādeva” that demote the position of an arhat. A closer investigation into these “five points,” however, shows that Mahādeva most likely has to be connected with the later fragmentation of the Mahāsāṃghikas into different subschools. These subschools became prominent in the south of the Indian subcontinent. Epigraphical evidence for the presence of these southern subschools is dated to the second and third centuries CE, i.e., posterior to the epigraphical evidence for the pres- ence of the Mahāsāṃghikas in the north. An investigation of Mahāsāṃghika literature reveals a growing pre- occupation with abhidharmic questions and a gradual evolution toward the Mahayana, as is also seen among the Mahāsāṃghika subschools that resided in the north. It is therefore rewarding to investigate the references to the Mahāsāṃghikas in the Apidamo dapiposha lun 阿毘達磨大毘婆沙論 (T no. 1545, hereafter *Abhidharmamahāvibhāṣāśāstra), as this text should The Eastern Buddhist 40/1&2: 25–61 ©2009 The Eastern Buddhist Society 26 THE EASTERN BUDDHIST 40, 1 & 2 geographically be situated in the northwestern domains of the spread of the doctrine, and must be dated prior to the flourishing of the southern sub- schools of the Mahāsāṃghikas and their connection with Mahādeva. -
On the School Affiliation of Aśvaghoṣa: "Sautrāntika" Or
JIABS Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies Volume 26 Number 2 2003 General Introduction by Robert KRITZER ............................................................................ 201 Nobuyoshi YAMABE On the School Affiliation of AsvaghoÒa: “Sautrantika” or “Yoga- cara”?................................................................................................ 225 Takumi FUKUDA Bhadanta Rama: A Sautrantika before Vasubandhu........................ 255 Bart DESSEIN Sautrantika and the H®daya Treatises.............................................. 287 Yoshifumi HONJO Sautrantika ........................................................................................ 321 Robert KRITZER Sautrantika in the AbhidharmakosabhaÒya...................................... 331 Oskar VON HINÜBER Report on the XIIIth Conference of the IABS.................................... 385 Cristina SCHERRER-SCHAUB IABS Treasurer Final Financial Report ........................................... 391 Notes on the Contributors................................................................. 395 JIABS volume 26 Number 1 2003 • Errata .................................... 397 ARTIKEL 201 ON THE SCHOOL AFFILIATION OF ASVAGHO∑A: “SAUTRANTIKA” OR “YOGACARA”? * NOBUYOSHI YAMABE Introduction Traditionally it was understood that Sarvastivada, Sautrantika, and Yogacara were three distinct traditions, but this framework has been seri- ously questioned in recent years. Owing to the efforts of Paul Demiéville, Nishi Giyu (Abidatsuma, “Buha”), and