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Madhyama-agama Studies

內容簡介

內容簡介 The present book collects various research papers by Bhikkhu Anālayo with translations of Madhyama-āgama discourses and a comparative study of their Pāli parallels, together with a brief discussion, found in the appendix, of the school affiliation of the Madhyama-āgama and its relation to the Majjhima-nikāya. The main emphasis in these studies is on detecting possible transmission errors in the Pāli versions through the help of the parallel Madhyama-āgama discourse. Topics taken up in the course of the different studies are the Buddha's decision to teach, the role of investigation in early Buddhism, the notion of a recluse, the relationship between tranquillity and insight, the lateness of the dictum that a woman cannot be a Buddha, the beginnings of the Abhidharma, meditation on emptiness in early Buddhism, the development of the arahant ideal, the canonical account of the founding of the order of nuns, and the relationship between karma and liberation.

作者介紹

作者介紹 ■作者簡介AnālayoBhikkhu Anālayo was born in Germany in 1962 and ordained in Sri Lanka in 1995. He completed a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka) in 2000 and a habilitation thesis at the University of Marburg (Germany) in 2007. At present, he teaches at the Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg, and researches at Dharma Drum Buddhist College (Taiwan).

產品目錄

產品目錄 Contents List of Tables and Plates DDBC Series Foreword Introduction Ariyapariyesana-sutta (MN 26) Cu_avedalla-sutta (MN 44) Vima_saka-sutta (MN 47) Mahasakuludayi-sutta (MN 77) Sama_ama__ika-sutta (MN 78) Vekhanassa-sutta (MN 80) Gha_ikara-sutta (MN 81) Bahitika-sutta (MN 88) Aneñjasappaya-sutta (MN 106) Chabbisodhana-sutta (MN 112) Bahudhatuka-sutta (MN 115) Mahacattarisaka-sutta (MN 117) vi.Madhyama-agama Studies Culasuññata-sutta (MN 121) Bakkula-sutta (MN 124) Dantabhumi-sutta (MN 125) Mahakaccanabhaddekaratta-sutta (MN 133) Gotami-sutta (AN 8.51) Karajakaya-sutta (AN 10.208) Appendix Abbreviations References Index Plates

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內文 : Dharma Drum Buddhist College Series
Dharma Drum Buddhist College Series
In 1994, Master Sheng Yen (1931–2009), the founder of Dharma Drum Buddhist College, began publishing the Series of the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies.
The purposes of publishing this series were: to provide a venue for academic research in Buddhist Studies supported by scholarships from the Chung-Hwa Institute of Buddhist Studies; to encourage top-quality Buddhist research; and to cultivate an interest in Buddhist research among the readership of the series. Moreover, by encouraging cooperation with international research institutions, he hoped to promote the domestic status of the academic study of Buddhism.
In keeping with Master Sheng Yen’s vision, in order to promote different aspects of exchange in academic research, we at Dharma Drum Buddhist College have begun to publish three educational series:
Dharma Drum Buddhist College Research Series (DDBC-RS),
Dharma Drum Buddhist College Translation Series (DDBC-TS)
Dharma Drum Buddhist College Special Series (DDBC-SS)
The Research Series (DDBC-RS) is primarily intended as a venue for academic research in the field of Buddhist Studies in general and of Chinese Buddhism in particular. The Translation Series (DDBC-TS) will present English renditions of Chinese canonical works as well as other important works, or else Chinese translations of academic publications on Buddhism that have appeared in European languages or Japanese, etc. The Special Series (DDBC-SS) will accommodate works which require special publication formats. Among our future goals is the extensive development of Buddhist digital publishing and information to adapt to the interactive and hyper-connective environment of the Web 2.0 age. This will allow research outcomes to be quickly shared and evaluated through the participation of individual users, through such media as blogs, shared tagging, wikis, social networks and so on. Our hope is to work towards developing an open environment for academic studies (perhaps called Science 2.0) on Buddhist ulture that will be more collaborative and efficient than traditional academic studies. In this way, Dharma Drum Buddhist College will continue to help foster the availability
of digital resources for Buddhist Studies.
Huimin Bhiksu, President
Dharma Drum Buddhist College
July 2010

Foreword
Once the great indologist and eminent writer Govind Chandra Pande remarked that in a way Buddhism can be considered the most universal of all the historical forms of spiritual culture. In the long history of Buddhism its followers did not hesitate to adopt the linguistic and material modes of culture prevalent in the societies where it happened to spread.
Thus Buddhist literature was readily created, for instance, in Central and East Asia and was considered fully authoritative. The historical Buddha himself did not favour the notion of any originally authentic language or of an absolutely sacrosanct canon of Holy Scripture. He wanted his disciples to accept his words only after duly testing and critically examining them.

On the strength of this rational message, says G.C. Pande, "even Buddhist mysticism depends on the scientific analysis of psychic and parapsychic phenomena and a system of moral and mental training depending on this analysis and testable by personal experience".

Borne out by G.C. Pande’s observations it can certainly be maintained that also scholarly Buddhists by confession and likewise such members of Buddhist monastic orders can be expected – in a strictly scientific sense – to do solid research on
the canonical and paracanonical texts of their various dharma traditions.

For over a decade now a good example of admirable scholarship on the part of sa
gha members is set by Bhikkhu Analayo. In 2007 he successfully defended his D.Litt. dissertation at Philipp’s University Marburg and published the same in 2011 (Dharma Drum Publishing Corporation, Taipei), entitled A Comparative Study of the Majjhima-nikaya in two vols. In this comprehensive textual study the author compares the Pali discourses of the Majjhima-nikaya with their parallels preserved in Chinese, Sanskrit and Tibetan. As he has shown con Madhyama-agama Studies vincingly, a meticulous comparative study together with judiciously handling the material dealt with does indeed go a long way towards clarifying many obscure places occurring in the canonical texts of Early Buddhism. When employing working hypotheses – indispensable, of course, in view of the numerous knotty textual and hermeneutical problems the buddhologist frequently is confronted with – Bhikkhu Analayo always
is circumspect and does not 'zoom' to conclusions. In the case of textual discrepancies between nikaya and agama accounts, for instance, there is no need always to reconsider a given school affiliation; such discrepancies, as Bhikkhu Analayo argues, are, more often than not, due to the "fluctuating nature of oral transmission".

As evidenced by quite a few articles that have appeared in various learned journals and by some monographs, alongside undertaking his D.Litt. dissertation and preparing it for publication Bhikkhu Analayo has indefatigably been continuing his comparative studies, either focusing anew on topics already treated in his Habilitationsschrift or undertaking altogether new tasks of nikaya-agama comparison by breaking fresh ground for the benefit of both the specialist and the cultured reader interested in early Buddhist canonical texts. I am very glad to see that nineteen out of his postdoctoral research papers have been singled out for a republication in one volume
which will surely facilitate considerably accessibility to all those who are working or will be working in the respective area of Buddhist Studies and hopefully also to the general reader.

Bhikkhu Pasadika
3rd May, 2012

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