The Buddhist Heritage (original) (raw)
1992, Journal of the American Oriental Society
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The volume "The Buddhist Heritage" compiles various papers presented during a symposium focusing on the diverse aspects of Buddhist traditions across Asia and the West. The contributions include discussions on significant characteristics of Buddhism, especially in relation to ritual practices and sect developments, as well as the historical impact of events on religious life in Theravada cultures. Critical examination of the Pali canon's evolution and its implications for understanding Buddhism is also highlighted, emphasizing the complexities of sect formation and the nuances of language in Buddhist texts.
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CONTENTS The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1992 Abbreviations............................................................................vii List of Illustrations.....................................................................ix Introduction...............................................................................xi T.H. Barrett Devil’s Valley to Omega Point: Reflections on the Emergence of a Theme from the Nō..............................1 T.H. Barrett Buddhism, Taoism and the Rise of the City Gods................13 L.S. Cousins The ‘Five Points’ and the Origins of the Buddhist Schools...27 P.T. Denwood Some Formative Inf1uences in Mahāyāna Buddhist Art…...61 G. Dorje The rNying-ma Interpretation of Commitment and Vow…..71 Ch.E. Freeman Saṃvṛti, Vyavahāra and Paramārtha inthe Akṣamatinirdeśa and its Commentary by Vasubandhu….................................97 D.N. Gellner Monk, Househo1der and Priest: What the Three Yānas Mean to Newar Buddhists...................................................115 C. Hallisey Councils as Ideas and Events in the Theravāda…………....133 S. Hookham The Practical Implications of the Doctrine of Buddha-nature……................................................................149 R. Mayer Observations on the Tibetan Phur-ba and the Indian Kīla ........................................................................163 K.R. Norman Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanical Hinduism: Brahmanical Terms in a Buddhist Guise……………..............193 References...............................................................................201
Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, Vol. 16. Oxford: Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, May 2019.
This 6,220-word review article of The Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy is concerned not only to review the work but to place it within the broader context of the study of Buddhist philosophy. As such, and in addition to evaluating the substantive Buddhist philosophical content of the book, I analyse in some detail the theoretical and methodological apparatuses the book deploys in order to translate classical Indian Buddhist philosophical positions, arguments, debates, assumptions, and concerns into an idiom recognizable to contemporary Western philosophers. Throughout, I argue that the fine balancing of emic and etic exigencies exemplified in the book ably elucidates how philosophically astute exposition of systematic thought built upon presuppositional frameworks alien to those of the exegete’s own intellectual culture may transculturally transmit such thought in a manner that simultaneously retains the distinctive features of the source materials and facilitates argumentatively justified engagement with them on the part of audience members unfamiliar with or even antagonistic toward them.
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