碩士 / 輔仁大學 / 宗教學系 / 91 / The prime of this thesis is to investigate into the mythicality of the legend of Buddha Sakyamuni, the originator of Buddhism. It is illustrated by examples to point out in reality, mythical language is a usual way of narration in uddhism. The buddhists view this basically from two different perspectives, either pure rationalism to demythologizing, or by pure faith to completely leaping-over reason to believe the inerrancy of the sutras. This thesis puts forth in facing of the buddhistic myths, how could buddhists keep their own faith and concurrently embrace reason? And then calls attention to the shortcomings of the undue emphasis on historical method of the contemporary research on buddhism. The methodology of this thesis to study the mythicality of the legend of Buddha is founded on religionswissenschaft and mythology that can bridge the cliff between faith and reason for the buddhists who are seeking for the meaning of buddhistic myths.
The 25 sutras of legends of Buddha for discussion in this thesis are parts of Agama(阿含經), vinaya pitaka(律藏), pratitya nikaya(本緣部) from the “Dah Jeng Tzang”(大正藏), especially the 8 books of <Agama> that describe the stories of seven buddhas proceeded toward their buddha-ship. Because of the similarity to the legend of Buddha, they are also included for discussion. In the thesis, the legends having plots with more mythicality are discussed firstly on the literary style and form, and the structural peculiarities; then tabulating the content in 7 stages including the phases of preliminary, condescension, fetus, monkhood, exorcist, preacher-ship, and nirvana.
Based on the foundation above, prior to analyzing the mythicality of the legend of Buddha, mythologies of Joseph Cambell, M. Eliade and Rudolf Bultmann are introduced for explanation of the correct concept of and attitude toward myths. and by means of this some mis-understanding on myths are clarified, such as the legends of Buddha were not composed by specific authors, but were narratives about the sacred history symbolizing connotative meanings behind the literal senses of the words. Then work on analysis along topics such as, the symbolised connotation, the assistance from supernatural power, the structure of sacred time and space, and the transformation to cosmic events from historical events. Finally, concluding culture, religious language, and behavioristic effects are the three points that should be held as principle on hermeneutics of myths.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/091FJU00183002 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Lee kun-yin, 李坤寅 |
| Contributors | Cheng chih-ming, 鄭志明 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 119 |
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