Beginnings of Buddhist Ethics

Meisig, Konrad:
Beginnings of Buddhist Ethics : the Chinese Parallel to the Kūṭadantasutta / ed., transl. and compared with the Pali by Konrad Meisig. - Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz, 2011. - VII, 120 S. - (East Asia Intercultural Studies = Interkulturelle Ostasienstudien ; 4)
ISBN 978-3-447-06459-0
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-- Angekündigt für März 2011 --

Beschreibung
The Chinese parallel to the Pāli-Kūṭadantasutta marks one of the major turning points in Old Indian history of ideas: the transition from magic to ethics. In this sermon, the Buddha rejects the Vedic animal sacrifice and re-interprets it according to Buddhist ethics. He preaches sacrifices in a new sense of the word: the sacrifice of giving alms to Buddhist monks, or, even better, of building monasteries, of converting to Buddhism as a Buddhist layman, of obeying the five Buddhist rules for laymen, or - finally and most meritorious - becoming a Buddhist monk.
   In Beginnings of Buddhist Ethics, Konrad Meisig translates the Buddhist Chinese text for the first time and contrasts it in synopsis with the Pāli. The text is given in the original characters along with the Pinyin transcription. The text-critical introduction deals with the variae lectiones both of the Chinese and the Pāli; the final analysis focuses on the literary stratification and criticism of forms, thus reconstructing the archetypical nucleus of the Kūṭadantasutta. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
INTRODUCTION
   Chinese. 1
   Pāli. 4
   Sanskrit. 11
   Previous studies of the Kūṭadantasūtra. 11
EDITION AND TRANSLATION
   1. Narrative framework, introduction (Events in the present: paccuppannavatthu). 13
   2. The Buddha's instruction on the magic sacrifice (Events in the past: atītavatthu). 46
   3. Identification (samodhāna): The ancient king of the past is the Buddha in the present. 78
   4. The Buddha’s instruction on the superior Buddhist sacrifice: its ethical quality. 80
   5. Narrative framework, conclusion (Events in the present continued: paccuppannavatthu). 88
ANALYSIS
   Literary criticism. 99
   Criticism of forms. 106
   The nucleus of the Kūṭadantasūtra. 112
Abbreviations and Bibliography. 115

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