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Expansion, Compilation, Abbreviation: Some Thoughts on the Construction of Buddhist Texts
Studies of the form and textual history of various Buddhist texts show that they tend to undergo three types of developmental processes. First, some...
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The Senses of Performance and the Performance of the Senses: The Case of the Dharmabhāṇaka’s Body
In the “Chapter on the Benefits to the Performer of the Dharma” ( dharmabhāṇakānuśaṁsāparivartaḥ ) in the Saddharmapuṇḍ arīka ( Lotus Sūtra ), the Buddha...
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The Case of yogakṣema/yogakkhema in Vedic and Suttapiṭaka Sources. In Response to Norman
Norman in 1969 emphasised a linguistic difference between the Vedic compound yogakṣema- interpreted as a dvandva (“exertion and rest”) and the widely...
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Aśvaghoṣa and His Canonical Sources (III): The Night of Awakening (Buddhacarita 14.1–87)
The present paper is the third in a series dedicated to uncovering the canonical sources of Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita and, to the extent possible, the...
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Wholesome Remembrance and the Critique of Memory—From Indian Buddhist Context to Chinese Chan Appropriation
Although the major part of the chapter’s investigation is on the mode and acts of remembering in Chan Buddhism, Wang opens with a survey of the...
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The Case of the Sārasaṅgaha: Reflections on the Reuse of Texts in Medieval Sinhalese Pāli Literature
The Sārasaṅgaha is a Pāli text of XIIth–XIIIth century by the Sinhalese monk Siddhattha Thera. Its themes include the aspiration to become a Buddha,...