Mind, Text, and Reality in Buddhist Studies : Engaging the Scholarship of Rupert Gethin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gethin, Rupert, honouree.

Fuller, Paul, 1968- editor.

Weerasekera, Indaka Nishan, editor.

Hallisey, Charles, 1953- writer of supplementary textual content.

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism.

Buddhist cosmology.

Buddhism and science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (287 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

An edited volume of contributions from Buddhist studies scholars that engage with the work of Rupert Gethin.

Contents:

Foreword

Notes of Appreciation

Note on the Translations

Buddhist Teachings: Ancient and Modern

1. Gods, Demons and Kind Spirits

Buddhist Cosmology and Meaningful Myth, Ajahn Amaro (Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK)

2. Moving through the Forest: Approaching Textual Representations of Buddhist Meditation like a Great Elephant, Daniel M. Stuart (University of South Carolina, USA)

3. Dharma in the Digital Age: Some reflections on Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence, Jane Compson (University of Washington, USA)

Abhidharma Studies

4. The Fourth Chapter of the Tattvartha Abhidharmakosatika: Causes for Losing Restraint, Non-Restraint and Neither-Restraint-nor-Non-Restraint. Jowita Kramer (Universittƒ Leipzig, Germany) and Kazuo Kano (Koyasan University, Japan)

5. Exposing the Rice Ball Trick

How Pali Grammarians Transformed Grammar into a Branch of the Abhidhamma, Aleix Ruiz-Falqus (Shan State Buddhist University, Myanmar)

6. 'Distinguishing the Composite and the Non-composite': The first chapter of Dasabalasrimitra's Samskrtasamskrtaviniscaya, Peter Skilling (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)

7. Abhidhamma through numbers, Nalini Balbir (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France) and Javier Schake (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France)

8. The Milk Debt to Mother: Abhidhamma in Burmese Buddhism, Pyi Phyo Kyaw (King's College, London, UK)

Textual Studies

9. Textual Entanglements: Encounters with Gandhari Manuscripts, Collett Cox (University of Washington, USA)

10. South Indian and Sri Lankan Buddhist Vinaya Traditions and Discrepancies in their Exegeses, Petra Kieffer-P?olz (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Germany)

11. One Hundred and Eight Distinctions of Craving: The *Trsna-sutra of the Samyukagama, Jens-Uwe Hartmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) and (Keiki Nakayama Leipzig University, Germany).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-350-50598-6

1-350-50599-4

OCLC:

1504688054