{"title":"Unnatural Frenchmen: The Politics of Priestly Celibacy and Marriage, 1720 –1815, by E. Claire Cage. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2015. 248 pp. (ISBN: 9780813937137)","authors":"H. Kim","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.31.1.279","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.31.1.279","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41899727","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Practical Knowledge for Monks to Abstain from Killing and Injuring Living Beings in Everyday Life with Reference to the Vinayapiṭaka and the Samantapāsādikā","authors":"Aono Michihiko","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.141","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43975096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Silla Monks’ Interpretations of the Precept Against Taking of Life","authors":"Jarang Lee","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.115","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44649214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tantric Appearances and Non-Tantric Meanings: Four Systems of the “Maṇḍala of Mantra” in the Buddhist Cakrasaṃvara Literature","authors":"Sugiki Tsunehiko","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.217","url":null,"abstract":"Recitation is the most common means of practicing mantras, but it is not the only method. Some Buddhist texts belonging to the Cakrasaṃvara scriptural tradition in early medieval India include discourses that teach visualization of the “maṇḍala of mantra,” i.e., a maṇḍala comprised of deities who are anthropomorphized transformations of letters that constitute either a single mantra or group of mantras. Four of the major mantras in that scriptural tradition, viz., the heart mantra of Heruka, the near-heart mantra of Heruka, the mantra of the six yoginīs, and the heart mantra of Vārāhī, are practiced through visualization of the maṇḍala of mantra. This paper analyzes the forms and functions of the four systems of the “maṇḍala of mantra” taught in the Cakrasaṃvara tradition, focusing on the Herukābhidhānatantra, Kambala’s Sādhananidhi, and the Abhidhānottaratantra. Analysis demonstrates that the four systems of the maṇḍala of mantra were developed gradually. Firstly, in the Herukābhidhānatantra, the four mantras were taught for recitation to those who practice for mundane purposes, particularly those inclined toward black or harmful magic. In the Sādhananidhi, the mantras were organized as the maṇḍalas of deities with Tantric appearances. Through visualization, practitioners can serve a wide range of mundane purposes. Finally, in the Abhidhānottaratantra, most deities were correlated to non-Tantric Buddhist concepts, such as the Eight Liberations, and some of the purposes of visualization are more spiritual or supramundane. These suggest that the deities’ Tantric appearances represent their magical and mundane potentials, while the non-Tantric Buddhist concepts represent their spiritual and supramundane potential. These different forms are related to how the visualization effects are theorized.","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46550164","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Brief Note on Baby Siddhārtha’s First Bath","authors":"Chengzhong Pu","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.257","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42978908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uṇhissavijjaya in Cambodia: Rituals and Narrative","authors":"Olivier de Bernon","doi":"10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.31.2.109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.31.2.109","url":null,"abstract":"The core of this paper is the translation of a short Cambodian manuscript entiteled Sec-ktī jīv-dān (The gift of life) . In the narrative of this text the Lord Buddha tells how a devaputta called Supati ṭṭ hita, should recite the stanzas of the U ṇ hissavijjaya in order to avoid the fate of falling into hell after his time in heaven is finished. The Lord Buddha even gives some instructions about how some rituals should be performed when reciting these stanzas. Though the manuscript of the Sec-ktī jīv-dān is quite rare nowadays in Cambodia, the ceremony of the gift of life ( pu ṇ y jīv-dān ) involving the ritualized recitation of the U ṇ hissavijjaya stanzas is not in Cambodia.","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43000246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Account of Generous Action and Esteem in Pāli Buddhism","authors":"Nicholaos Jones","doi":"10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.31.2.195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.31.2.195","url":null,"abstract":"I propose an account of generous action in the Pāli Buddhist tradition, whereby generous actions are instances of giving in which the donor has esteem for the recipient of their giving. The account differs from recent Anglophone accounts of generous action. These tend to construe generous actions as instances of a donor freely offering a gift to the recipient for the sake of benefiting the recipient. Unlike the Buddhist account I propose, these accounts do not require donors to esteem their recipient. Accordingly, I also offer a partial account of esteem, whereby one esteems another only if they refrain from noticing the other’s faults and they encounter the other as someone who is superior in virtue and goodness. Taken together, the Buddhist accounts of generous action and esteem offer insight into certain ways in which different philosophical traditions tend to characterize generous action.","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41619519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uṣṇīṣavijayā-dhāraṇī: The Complete Sanskrit Text Based on Nepalese Manuscripts","authors":"G. Hidas","doi":"10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.31.2.147","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.31.2.147","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46200889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Buddhist Pilgrim-Monks as Agents of Cultural and Artistic Transmission: The International Buddhist Art Style in East Asia, ca. 645–770, by Dorothy C. Wong. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2018. 376 pp. (ISBN: 9789814722599)","authors":"Jungmi Ha","doi":"10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.30.2.263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.30.2.263","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49425439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Lamp of Discernment: A Translation of Chapters 1–12 of Bhāviveka’s Prajñāpradīpa, by William L. Ames. Honolulu: University Hawai‘i Press, 2019. 486 pp. (ISBN: 9781886439696)","authors":"H. Ham","doi":"10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.30.2.255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/IJBTC.2020.12.30.2.255","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45918420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}