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Mahāvastu
Einige Legenden, die in dem umfangreichen buddhistischen Text anonymer Herkunft enthalten sind, scheinen aus dem 2. Jh. v. Chr. zu stammen. Das...
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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 Four Stages in the Context of the Liberating Experience of the Buddha and the Early Buddhist Disciples
This chapter investigates the association of the theory of four stages in the contexts of the liberation experience of the Buddha and the early...
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Prajñāpāramitā as a Crisis-Marker in Buddhism
The Prajñāpāramitā texts recorded the most serious departure from the preceding religious-philosophical tenets of early Buddhism, thus allowing the...
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“There is No Reliable Evidence to Pass Moral Judgment on Frauwallner.”
This paper engages with a little-known controversy between Jakob Stuchlik and Walter Slaje on the involvement of Erich Frauwallner, the renowned...
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Engineering a social contract: Rawlsian distributive justice through algorithmic game theory and artificial intelligence
The potential for artificial intelligence algorithms and game theory concepts to offer prescriptive and decision-making capability for humankind is...
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The Theosophical Maitreya: On Benjamin Creme’s Millenarianism
Notably informed by the Theosophical tradition, the Scottish esotericist Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) emphatically places Maitreya at the centre of his...
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Visualization in Early Buddhism
A survey of selected early Buddhist discourse passages brings to light a distinct visual dimension that would have been integral to their oral...
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Awakening or Enlightenment? On the Significance of bodhi
The central goal of traditional mindfulness practice is bodhi , often translated as “awakening.” A critical examination of arguments proposed by...
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Lalitavistara
Die Buddha-Biographie, entstanden vor dem Jahr 300 n. Chr., weist starke Einflüsse des Mahāyāna-Buddhismus auf und beruht nach chinesischen Angaben...
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Mongolische religiöse Literatur
Die religiöse Literatur der Mongolen umfasst autochthone sowie buddhistische Texte. Die autochthone religiöse Literatur ist anonym und wurde mündlich...
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The Buddha’s Awakening
A comparative study of early Buddhist textual accounts of the Buddha’s awakening helps to put into perspective the impression that these texts...
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Vinayapiṭaka
Das anonyme Werk ist der erste Teil des Kanons der heiligen Schriften der Buddhisten ( ). Gegenstand des...
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Schism of Buddhism: History and Variations in Representations
This chapter provides a historical overview of the schism in Buddhism while presenting variations in the representation of number of schools. While...
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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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Digital Governance
Governance has been defined to refer to structures and processes that are designed to ensure accountability, transparency, responsiveness, rule of...
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The Sun in Stone—Early Anthropomorphic Imagery of Sūrya in North India
The paper discusses aspects of the iconographical development and the possible reasons for the depiction of the sun god in North India in Buddhist as...
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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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Die Quellen
Die historisch-kritische Forschung hat dazu geführt, die Grundlagen von Buddhismus, Christentum und Islam nicht m ehr so zu betrachten, wie dies...
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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...