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Mark Allon, Mark Allon
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The composition and transmission of early Buddhist texts with specific reference to sutras

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This study discusses the composition and transmission of early Buddhist texts with specific reference to sutra (sutta/sutra) texts. Based on an initial overview of the stylistic and structural characteristics of these texts and the principles employed in the creation and organization of sutra and verse collections that, I argue, indicate that they were oral compositions that were intended to be memorized and transmitted verbatim, the study focuses on the types of changes that these texts underwent in the course of their transmission, both intentional and unintentional, and the reasons such changes occurred. It then gives an account of the challenges that change, particularly intentional change, must have posed to the oral transmission of fixed texts.

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Projekt Verlag
Language
English
Pages
142

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Subjects

Buddhism, Sacred books, History, Transmission of texts, Bouddhisme, Livres sacrés, Histoire, Transmission de textes

Places

Asia, Asie
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2021, Projekt Verlag
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The stylistic features of sutra prose and what they reveal about the composition and transmission of these texts
3. References within canonical texts to tests being memorized and recited communally
4. The formation of sutra and verse collections and the samgitikaras and bhanakas
5. The main differences between parallel versions of early Buddhist texts and accounting for these differences
6. Recent scholarship on the composition of early Buddhist texts, and initiating and adapting to change.

Edition Notes

"Numata Center for Buddhist Studies"--Cover

Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-142)

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Bochum/Freiburg
Series
Hamburg Buddhist studies -- 17, Hamburg Buddhist studies -- 17.
Copyright Date
2021

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Library of Congress
BQ1113 .A55 2021

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Pagination
x, 142 pages
Number of pages
142

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Open Library
OL43635285M
ISBN 10
3897335522
ISBN 13
9783897335523
OCLC/WorldCat
1288274362

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