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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The Trikâya : a study of the Buddhology of the early Vijñânavâda school of Indian Buddhism

Hanson, Mervin Viggo January 1980 (has links)
This is a study of the trikâya (the so-called "three bodies of the Buddha") doctrine whereby the early Indian Vijnânavâda Buddhists harmonized various beliefs about the Buddha. The most important twentieth-century studies are reviewed, but are found to contain no reliable interpretation of the early doctrine. Therefore, I have undertaken this study to clarify and interpret the trikâya. The main textual source is Asanga's Mahâyânasamgraha, which contains the earliest systematic outline of the Vihnânavâda system. The Buddhological passages have first been translated (from Tibetan and Chinese) in light of the commentaries by Vasubandhu and Asvabhâva. They have then been compared and arranged to expose the general structure of Asanga's trikâya. Why did Asanga introduce the trikâya when other integrative Buddhologies (especially the rupakâya/dharmakâya of the prajnâpâramitâ) were already at hand? A comparison of his application.of the trikâya with the prajnâpâramitâ treatment of similar concerns reveals that the former integrates one idea that the latter does not—that of the Buddhafield. The necessity to include this nascent doctrine appears to have been the main reason for the introduction of the trikâya. In the conclusion, the trikâya has been analyzed further to obtain an abstract Structuralist model exhibiting Asanga's Buddhology in terms acceptable to the non-believer. It is a useful framework within which to study the concept of Buddhahood itself, and its relation to other Vijnanavada dogma. It is also a convenient way to compare the results of modern "".investigations. This model, derived by an extension of Asanga's own search for the implicit pattern behind diverse scriptural statements about Buddhahood, is similar to those used by the anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss. Therefore, various hypotheses were suggested by his writings. The model is a two-dimensional diagram which represents the encounter between Buddha (Svabhâvikakâya—at the top) and Man (Prthagjana—at the bottom). They are, simultaneously, poles of a dialectical tension and uninhabited existential categories. The inhabited region in-.the middle of the diagram is composed of a continuum of three situations along the horizontal axis. Each contains three elements: Buddha, Aspirant and Environment. The actual encounters between Buddha and Aspirant occur in these situations. "They include that of the Neophyte in the world, for whom the Buddha is merely a message; the Sravaka who is approached by a Nirmânakâya ("historical Buddha") who teaches him by pain, and the Bodhisattva who approaches the Sambhogakâya (the god-like figure in a Buddhafield) who matures him through pleasure. In the course of these three, the aspirant undergoes "reorientation," i.e., moves up the vertical axis to become a Buddha who, in turn, reaches out to another aspirant. The remainder "of the Buddhological ideas from the text are placed within this diagram. Finally, the applicability of this model to other Buddhological questions is examined. / Arts, Faculty of / Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, Department of / Graduate
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Controversy over Dharmakāya in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism an historical-critical analysis of Abhisamayālaṃkāra chapter 8 and its commentaries in relation to the large Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra and the Yogācāra tradition /

Makransky, John J., January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1990. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves : 615-626).
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Vasubandhu: three aspects a study of a Buddhist philosopher.

Anacker, Stefan. January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1970. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.
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Chi-tsang's Ta-ch'eng-hsüan-lun the two truths and the Buddha-nature /

Koseki, Aaron Ken, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 443-445).
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Le Shasekishu : miroir d’une personnalité, miroir d’une époque

Golay, Jacqueline January 1974 (has links)
Mujû Kokushi was born in 1227, some forty years after the great upheaval caused by the struggle between the Taira and Minamoto families. His was a century of religious controversies which were often the outcome of a search for a form of Buddhism capable of answering the spiritual needs of the masses. Mujû could see no incompatibility between the traditional forms of Buddhism and a truly popular religion. He wrote the Shasekishû in order to demonstrate that every aspect of Buddhism can be practical and useful. For instance, he said that although the practice of Shingon Buddhism is usually thought to be proper only for princes and priests, nowhere in the Scriptures is such an idea stated. Every man or woman, he felt, must avail himself or herself of the miraculous power of the magic formulae of esoteric Buddhism. Mujû did not want to discard all the new schools of buddhist thought which had sprung up during his lifetime, but he deplored their excesses and the narrowness of their views, which bred prejudice and intolerance. This dissertation is composed of two parts of approximately the same length. The first part is an effort to present Mujû points of view through, the study of his life and writings, more specifically of the Shasekishû, a collection of sermons and tales written during the years 1279-84. Mujû's goal is twofold: first, to prove the practicality of Buddhism, its unfailing availability through the compassionate care of many Buddhas and bodhisattvas who vowed to save humanity. Second, to show that the truths of Buddhism are unchangeable, and that differences of opinion are merely different ways of considering the same idea. Therefore, the new sects, such as the Pure Land sect, were grossly mistaken when they claimed to offer the only valid solution to the problems of the time. There is an answer to each individual need, and it is made available through Buddha's universal expedients, or hôben. In Japan , hôben is made tangible in the various native gods or kami, and in the form of poetry called waka, which Mujû regards as the highest expression of Buddha's golden thought and the ultimate means of communion between the Japanese mind and transcendental Truth. For this reason, Mujû equates waka with the magic formulae of esoteric Buddhism or dhâranî. In the Shasekishû, Mujû gives many examples of the application of buddhist ideals in daily life. His humorous approach, the lighter vein of the second part of his book, is perhaps intended to make the revelation of the Truth less formidable. The second part of this dissertation is a selection of translated texts chosen to illustrate the main points of the argument. The text used for this study is edited by Watanabe Tsunaya, Shasekishû , Nihon Koten Bungaku Taikei 85, (Tokyo: Iwanami, 1966). / Arts, Faculty of / Asian Studies, Department of / Graduate
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Die Āvaśyaka-Erzählungen über die Upasargas des Mahāvīra im Vergleich mit den Versuchungen des Bodhisattva in der buddhistischen Literatur

Verclas, Katrin. January 1978 (has links)
Thesis--Hamburg. / Vita. Includes Sanskrit text of some legends. Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-278).
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Ethics of Pali Buddhism

Tachibana, Shundō January 1922 (has links)
No description available.
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The dhamma of Gotama the Buddha and the gospel of Jesus the Christ a critical inquiry into the alleged relations of Buddhism with primitive Christianity ...

Aiken, Charles Francis, January 1900 (has links)
Thesis (D.D.)--Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., 1900. / Bibliography: p. [325]-344.

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