Voice of the Buddha

Buddhaghosa on the Immeasurable Words
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-19-090665-8
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 599 g

How did ancient Buddhists read and interpret the Buddha's words? In Voice of the Buddha, Maria Heim reads the early Buddhist scriptures with Buddhaghosa, the principal commentator, editor, and translator of the Theravada intellectual tradition. Buddhaghosa considers the Buddha to be omniscient and his words "oceanic." Every word, passage, bookindeed, the corpus as a wholeis taken to be "endless and immeasurable." Commentarial practice thus requires disciplined methods of expansion, drawing out the endless possibilities for meaning and application. Heim considers Buddhagohsa's theories of scripture and follows his practices of exegesis to yield fresh insight into all three collections of the early Pali texts: Vinaya, the Suttas, and the Abhidhamma.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heim, Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgements

- Abbreviations

- Introduction

- Part One: Building Blocks for an Interpretative Program

- Chapter One: The Buddha's Omniscience and the Immeasurability of Scripture

- Chapter Two: Scripture, Commentary, and Exegetical Distinctions

- Part Two: Interpreting the Three Pitakas

- Chapter Three: Interpreting the Contexts and Conditions of Buddhavacana in the Suttanta

- Chapter Four: Disentangling the Tangle: Abhidhamma as Phenomenological Analysis

- Chapter Five: The 'Completely Pleasing' Exegesis on the Vinaya

- Conclusion

- Appendix A: The Recollection of the Dhamma

- Appendix B: Commentary on the Section on Verañja Starting the Vinaya

- Appendix C: Four Oceans and Three Pitakas

- Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Heim is Professor of Religion and Elizabeth W. Bruss Reader at Amherst College. She is the author of The Forerunner of All Things and Theories of the Gift in South Asia.