La Concentration de la marche héroïque (Śūraṃmgamasamādhisūtra). Translated and annotated by Étienne Lamotte. (Mélanges chinois et bouddhiques, Vol. XIII.) pp. xiii, 308, and in folder 17 pp. Chinese. Brussels, 1965.

Emmerick, R. E.

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“…2 See (Sanae 1930(Sanae , 1931Emmerick 1965Emmerick , 1970Lamotte , [1998Lamotte ] 2003Thubten Kalzang et al 1970;Tanji 1974;Kaneko 1990;Kawamura 1969Kawamura , 1972Kawamura , 1993Shioiri 1990;Fukita and Noriyuki 1997;Deleanu 2000;Skilton 2002;Tsai 2003Tsai , 2006Wakemi 2004;Kobayashi 2004;Apple 2015;Chen 2015Chen , 2018Radich 2015;Shih 2016;Fukita 2020;Sawazaki 2021;Wenta 2023). The works that edit the Sanskrit fragments are not included in this review.…”

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“…Lamotte's monograph received over ten book reviews, but only J. May and J. C. Wright expressed differnt views on his interpretation, see (Emmerick 1965;Vetch 1965;Lamotte 1966;Wright 1967;De Jong 1970;Sakurabe 1972;Steinkellner 1999;Guruge 2000;Pāsādika 2000;Kroll 2001;von Hinüber 2001;Mochizuki 2006). After Emmerick (1970) and Lamotte ([1998] 2003) responded to these critiques, no further dissenting opinions arose regarding the section of Śūram ˙gama.…”

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Statement or Supramundanity? Making Sense of Śūraṃgama-Samādhi and Its Related Narratives

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The aim of this paper is to provide a new interpretation for the term Śūraṃgama-samādhi, an important concept in the Mahāyāna literature, by proposing new exegeses of its primary and derivative meanings as they appear in the Śūraṃgamasamādhi-sūtra (hereafter SSS). While many have defined samādhi as a form of meditative practice, a state of mind, or, as argued by Andrew Skilton, a collection of terms, the term samādhi in the SSS can be understood as a locus of gathering or convergence in the metaphorical sense. In SSS, this metaphorical location refers to the supramundane state of those buddhas and tenth-stage bodhisattvas, wherein all his supernatural powers and manifestations converge. Lamotte’s interpretation of Śūraṃgama as “marche héroïque/heroic progress”, however, only provides a single understanding of this polysemous concept. This article will offer a more nuanced understanding and interpretation of this compound term. Regarding the derivative meanings of the term, the present paper argues that the traditional interpretation of the term Śūraṃgama-samādhi (in the derivative meaning) as self-referential to the sūtra itself (Śūraṃgama-samādhi = SSS) does not align with the meaning of the term as it appears in the SSS. The exclusion of “self-reference” in our interpretation of the derivative meaning of the term therefore avoids the paradox of an “infinite loop of self-reference” as presented by past studies on the subject.

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