A study of the Buddha’s biographies in the Vinaya Piṭaka: centered on the Chinese translations of the four complete Vinayas
The Buddha’s biographies in the Vinaya Piṭaka are mainly found in the ‘Grantha [Section] on Receiving the Precepts’ of the Tāmraparṇīya Vinaya, Four-Part Vinaya and Five-Part Vinaya. Each of these has its own Buddha’s biographical accounts, forming the Buddha’s biographical motif in the Vinaya Piṭak...
| Published in: | Studies in Chinese Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2019
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Studies in Chinese Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Four-Part Vinaya
B Tāmraparṇīya Vinaya B Buddha’s biographies in the Vinaya Piṭaka B Five-Part Vinaya B Buddha’s biography motif |
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| Summary: | The Buddha’s biographies in the Vinaya Piṭaka are mainly found in the ‘Grantha [Section] on Receiving the Precepts’ of the Tāmraparṇīya Vinaya, Four-Part Vinaya and Five-Part Vinaya. Each of these has its own Buddha’s biographical accounts, forming the Buddha’s biographical motif in the Vinaya Piṭaka. The Buddha’s biographies in the Vinaya Piṭaka are descriptions of the Buddha’s life that occurred during the establishment of the precepts. As such, these biographical accounts are concise and simple, and not develop into biographies that are systematic with distinct layers and clear motifs. The fragmented Buddha’s biographical accounts in the Vinaya Piṭaka can be seen as a transition from the Āgama Buddha’s biographies to the Buddha’s biographies of Mahāyāna Buddhism, and were the foundation for later biographies. |
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| ISSN: | 2372-9996 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Studies in Chinese Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/23729988.2019.1630971 |