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Reconstructing Early Buddhism - Roderick S. Bucknell

Reconstructing Early Buddhism

Buch | Hardcover
320 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-23652-2 (ISBN)
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This ground-breaking analysis of key differences between early Buddhist texts, written in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese, puts fresh perspectives on the Buddha, Buddhism and Buddhist meditative practices. These practices will be of particular interest to present-day practitioners of awareness and insight meditation. A landmark book on Buddhist origins.
Buddhist origins and discussion of the Buddha's teachings are amongst the most controversial and contested areas in the field. This bold and authoritative book tackles head-on some of the key questions regarding early Buddhism and its primary canon of precepts. Noting that the earliest texts in Pali, Sanskrit and Chinese belong to different Buddhist schools, Roderick S. Bucknell addresses the development of these writings during the period of oral transmission between the Buddha's death and their initial redaction in the first century BCE. A meticulous comparative analysis reveals the likely original path of meditative practice applied and taught by Gautama. Fresh perspectives now emerge on both the Buddha himself and his Enlightenment. Drawing on his own years of meditative experience as a Buddhist monk, the author offers here remarkable new interpretations of advanced practices of meditation, as well as of Buddhism itself. It is a landmark work in Buddhist Studies.

Roderick S. Bucknell holds a doctorate in Chinese linguistics and is an Honorary Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Queensland, where for eighteen years – prior to his retirement – he taught Chinese and Buddhist studies. Having become interested in the techniques of insight meditation on an earlier visit to the country, he was formerly (from 1967–71) a bhikkhu (Buddhist monk) based in Thailand. His previous works include The Twilight Language: Explorations in Buddhist Meditation and Symbolism (1995, co-authored with Martin Stuart-Fox, who has edited and provided the Postscript to the present volume) and Sanskrit Manual: A Quick Reference Guide to the Phonology and Grammar of Classical Sanskrit (2010).

Part I. Background and Context: 1. Introducing the project; 2. The Saṅgha and the oral transmission; 3. Scriptural sources; Part II. The Path: 4. The stepwise training; 5. Derivative accounts of the path; 6. The eightfold path; Part III. The Practice: 7. Mindfulness; 8. Concentration; 9. The three knowledges; Part IV. In Conclusion: 10. Summary and implications.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 158 x 232 mm
Gewicht 600 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Buddhismus
ISBN-10 1-009-23652-0 / 1009236520
ISBN-13 978-1-009-23652-2 / 9781009236522
Zustand Neuware
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