Early Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism II: New Perspectives

Drewes, David

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“…Synechdochally, dharmamegha is a part that stands in for the whole 78 : the superlative stage in itself signifies the whole scheme of ten stages (and therefore dharmamegha stands in for the whole of spiritual cultivation or 73 On the relationship of early Buddhist Pāli canonical suttas to mnemonic functions in oral culture, see Allon (1997). 74 This thesis was put forward by scholars such as Harrison (2003), but has recently been refuted by Drewes (2010Drewes ( , 2018. 75 Collins uses the term 'infinite extension' (Collins 2010, p. 25) to describe the way in which eternity is portrayed or understood in Mahāyāna texts.…”

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Dharmamegha in yoga and yogācāra: the revision of a superlative metaphor

O’Brien-Kop

2020

J Indian Philos

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The Pātañjalayogaśāstra concludes with a description of the pinnacle of yoga practice: a state of samādhi called dharmamegha, cloud of dharma. Yet despite the structural importance of dharmamegha in the soteriology of Pātañjala yoga, the śāstra itself does not say much about this term. Where we do find dharmamegha discussed, however, is in Buddhist yogācāra, and more broadly in early Mahāyāna soteriology, where it represents the apex of attainment and the superlative statehood of a bodhisattva. Given the relative paucity of Brahmanical mentions of dharmamegha in the early common era, Patañjali appears to adopt this key metaphor from a Mahāyāna context—and to revise its primary meaning from fullness to emptiness. This article traces the early elaborations of dharmamegha in Buddhist texts, and, drawing on conceptual metaphor theory, lays out four arguments that each, in part, accounts for the stark contrast in how classical yoga and yogācāra employ the superlative metaphor of dharmamegha.

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Dharmamegha in yoga and yogācāra: the revision of a superlative metaphor

O’Brien-Kop

2020

J Indian Philos

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Rhetorics of Solidarity in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Or, “You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Sūtra Is about You”

Wedemeyer

2021

History of Religions

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Moggallana’s Journey to Another Buddha-field

Kuan

2021

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The Chinese Ekottarika Agama (EA) stands out among the four Pali Nikayas and the corresponding four Chinese Agamas, which are supposed to be collections of early Buddhist texts. My study of anomalies in a sutta of EA reveals that it is a composite of various textual sources. The original translation of this sutta, presumably non-numerical, was merged with a much shorter, numerical sutta in the process of forming the extant sutta. Zhu Fonian was not satisfied with his original translation of EA, which was carried out under difficult circumstances. As time went by, he had access to other Indic sources and Chinese translations, which could have enabled him to improve this translation. On the other hand, he modified part of his translation in such a creative way that it deviates significantly from the Indic original. Thus our sutta incorporated some new elements, including an episode adapted from a passage in Dharmaraksa’s translation of a Mahayana text. Therefore, Moggallana’s travel to the Brahma Heaven in the original translation was turned into a journey to another buddhafield in the revised version. The religious milieu may have prompted Zhu Fonian to draw upon the Mahayana texts, especially those translated by Dharmaraksa, when revising his translation of EA.

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Early Indian Mahāyāna Buddhism II: New Perspectives

Cited by 4 publications

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Dharmamegha in yoga and yogācāra: the revision of a superlative metaphor

Dharmamegha in yoga and yogācāra: the revision of a superlative metaphor

Rhetorics of Solidarity in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature: Or, “You’re So Vain, I Bet You Think This Sūtra Is about You”

Moggallana’s Journey to Another Buddha-field

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