Bringing together contributions from North America, UK, Europe and Asia into a single volume, this book advances scholarship in Buddhist studies and celebrates Rupert Gethin's immense contribution to the field. Essays include explorations of Buddhist teachings, scriptural studies and cover the fields of research that engage Rupert Gethin's scholarship: Buddhist cosmology, textual translations, Abhidharma and the interface between Buddhism and modern science.
Scholars address themes associated with Buddhist thought and practice, including philosophy of mind and the relationship between artificial intelligence and Buddhist ethics. Translations and analyses of a variety of written materials span several genres and ages: Gandhari manuscripts, Vinaya commentaries, Buddhist Sanskrit imagery and Tibetan translations of late Indian texts.
To acknowledge Rupert Gethin's important and expansive contribution to the field of Abhidharma, the book offers explorations into Abhidharma terminology, its commentaries and texts associated with early Buddhist schools. The volume also highlights the intricacies of Abhidharma, the interplay of Buddhism and modern technology, and how language shared between Pali and Sanskrit illuminates Buddhist doctrines.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 (Universität 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-Falqués (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 (Shan State Buddhist University, Taunggyi, Myanmar)
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-Pülz (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)
