The present book collects research papers by Bhikkhu Anālayo with translations of Saṃyukta-āgama discourses and comparative studies of their Pāli parallels, together with two appendices on the relationship between commentary and discourse as well as on the Udāna collection. Topics taken up in the course of the studies are the four noble truths as a diagnostic scheme, concern for the welfare of others, the transfer of merit, humour, Aṅgulimāla, teachings to laity, attitudes towards nuns, arahants and suicide, teaching and awakening, the gender-inclusiveness of the address 'monk', the acrobat simile, mindfulness of breathing, the Buddha's first discourse, self-cremation, and the Buddha's visit to his mother in the Heaven of the Thirty-three.
作者簡介
Bhikkhu Anālayowas born in Germany in 1962 and ordained in Sri Lanka in 1995. He completed a Ph.D. thesis at the University of Peradeniya (Sri Lanka) in 2000 and a habilitation thesis at the University of Marburg (Germany) in 2007. At present he is a professor at the University of Hamburg, Numata Center for Buddhist Studies (Germany), and a researcher at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (Taiwan).
This is the second volume of proceedings of the Āgama seminars convened by the Āgama Research Group at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (formerly Dharma Drum Buddhist College). On this occasion, the Āgama Research Group met to discuss the early collections of long discourses transmitted by the different Buddhist schools. Thanks to the discovery and ongoing publication of the incomplete Sanskrit Dīrgha-āgama manu¬script from Gilgit, three different versions of the Collec¬tion of Long Discourses are now avail¬able for comparative study: the Pali Dīgha-nikāya transmitted within the Theravāda tradition, the just-mentioned Dīrgha-āgama in Sanskrit, identified as Sar¬vās¬ti-vāda or Mūlasarvāstivāda, and the Chinese translation of an Indic Dīrgha-āgama (長阿含經), generally considered to be affiliated with the Dhar¬ma¬¬guptakas. The six papers collected here focus on research on these various incarnations of the collections of long discourses in comparative perspective.
作者簡介
About the editor:Sāmaṇerī DhammadinnāDharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts
About the contributors:Bhikkhu AnālayoNumata Center for Buddhist Studies, University of Hamburg &Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts
Roderick S. BucknellUniversity of Queensland
Toshiichi Endo (遠藤敏一)Centre of Buddhist Studies,The University of Hong KongJens-Uwe HartmannLudwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich
Jen-jou Hung (洪振洲)Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts
Seishi Karashima (辛嶋靜志)The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhologyat Soka University
本書是第一部研究太虛大師佛教改革始末的英文專書。作者除了大量引用原始中文資料外,亦引用了許多西方學者與傳教士的評論,包括太虛思想萌芽的歷史背景、一生的行止與全球性的弘法嘗試,以及其大乘佛教思想的願景架構與遺澤等,研究範圍十分完整,兼具東、西方及跨宗教的觀點與分析,為讀者提供了有別於坊間同類書籍的珍貴資料。太虛大師是二十世紀最重要、最具爭議性的佛教改革家與思想家。他於民初發起以「人生佛教」思想為主軸的佛教復興運動,試圖改革僧伽制度、提倡積極參與社會活動,以菩薩行在這個世界建立淨土,並實現成佛的誓願。他在當時的佛教界與文化界掀起了一番驚濤駭浪,所獲褒貶不一,甚至曾有保守派人士視他為危險分子。太虛自認在佛教改革上是失敗的,然而在他圓寂半個世紀後的今天,他所撒下的「人生佛教」種子,經歷了風雨飄搖的動盪年代,已然在台灣佛教界生根並且開花、結果。無論歷史如何評論他的成敗,不容置疑的是,他的影響力此刻正塑造著漢傳佛教的現代面貌。
作者簡介
白德滿(Don A. Pittman)范德比爾特大學(Vanderbilt University)文學碩士,芝加哥大學(University of Chicago)哲學博士。曾於1994至2000年落腳南台灣,擔任台南神學院的神學系主任與宗教學教授,同一時期於台北擔任台灣神學院客座教授,亦講授於菲律賓馬尼拉的東南亞神學研究院(South East Asia Graduate School of Religion)。目前,他是美國奧克拉荷馬州菲利浦神學院(Phillips Theological Seminary)的宗教歷史學教授與學術副校長。
譯者簡介
鄭清榮台灣雲林人,淡江大學美國研究所碩士,曾任中時晚報國際新聞中心主任。著有《郭曉晤長壽祕訣》(原水)、《鐵漢慈顏-台灣重機鉅子紀金標打造金豐傳奇》(上游),譯有《基因與命運》(原水)、《超覺玄祕體驗》、《危險激情》、《輕鬆說不》、《論人性》(時報)、《抓住心靈時刻》、《另類家庭》(天下)。興趣為寫作、翻譯與氣功。