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Beginnings of Buddhist Ethics: The Chinese Parallel to the Kutadantasutta.
By: Konrad Meisig
Beginnings of Buddhist Ethics: The Chinese Parallel to the Kutadantasutta Edited, translated and compared with the Pali (East Asia Intercultural Studies / Interkulturelle Ostasienstudien), Konrad Meisig
 
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Author: Konrad Meisig
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ISBN: 9783447064590
Publication Date: 2011


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Edited, translated and compared with the Pali (East Asia Intercultural Studies / Interkulturelle Ostasienstudien).

The Chinese parallel to the Pali-Kutadantasutta marks one of the major turning points in Old Indian history of ideas: the transition from magic to ethics. In this sermon, the Buddha rejects the Vedic animal sacrifice and re-interprests it according to Buddhist ethics. He preaches sacrifices in a new sense of the word: the sacrifice of giving alms to Buddhist monks, or, even, better, of building monasteries, of converting to Buddhism as a Buddhist layman, of obeying the five Buddhist rules for laymen, or - finally the most meritorious - becoming a Buddhist monk.

In "Beginnings of Buddhist Ethics", Konrad Meisig translates the Buddhist Chinese text for the first time and contrasts it in synopsis with the Pali. The text is given in the original characters along with the Pinyin transcription. The text-critical introduction deals with the variae lectiones both of the Chinese and the Pali; the final analysis focuses on the literary stratification and criticism of forms, thus reconstruction the archetypical nucleus of the Kutadantasutta.

Beginnings of Buddhist Ethics: The Chinese Parallel to the Kutadantasutta Edited, translated and compared with the Pali (East Asia Intercultural Studies / Interkulturelle Ostasienstudien), Konrad Meisig, Paperback, 120 pages, 2011, $59.00

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