عنوان

An Opaque Pun

شماره

LA112511

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

An Opaque Pun

نام عام مواد

[Article]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Ruixuan Chen

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

Various interpretations of Kāśyapaparivarta § 68 have been attempted in the Yogācāra-Vijñānavāda tradition. This passage, which consists in a simile likening a magician devoured by his own creation to a monk involved in meditation practice, appears prima facie absurd, insofar as the similarity between the tenor and the vehicle is not readily apparent. This article mainly consists of two parts: The first part examines the received interpretations of the simile and reconstructs their interrelationship from a historical perspective. The second part explores the literary dimension of the simile and argues that its ostensible absurdity is rooted in a pun which is visible only in Middle Indo-Aryan and seems to serve no purpose. Coming to terms with the opaque and pointless pun, this essay is aimed at a new interpretation of Kāśyapaparivarta § 68 and, it is hoped, a deeper understanding of the literary playfulness inherent in the making of the Kāśyapaparivarta as a so-called early Mahāyāna sūtra against the backdrop of the Sanskritization of Buddhist sūtra literature. Various interpretations of Kāśyapaparivarta § 68 have been attempted in the Yogācāra-Vijñānavāda tradition. This passage, which consists in a simile likening a magician devoured by his own creation to a monk involved in meditation practice, appears prima facie absurd, insofar as the similarity between the tenor and the vehicle is not readily apparent. This article mainly consists of two parts: The first part examines the received interpretations of the simile and reconstructs their interrelationship from a historical perspective. The second part explores the literary dimension of the simile and argues that its ostensible absurdity is rooted in a pun which is visible only in Middle Indo-Aryan and seems to serve no purpose. Coming to terms with the opaque and pointless pun, this essay is aimed at a new interpretation of Kāśyapaparivarta § 68 and, it is hoped, a deeper understanding of the literary playfulness inherent in the making of the Kāśyapaparivarta as a so-called early Mahāyāna sūtra against the backdrop of the Sanskritization of Buddhist sūtra literature.

تاريخ نشر

2018

توصيف ظاهري

369-395

عنوان

Indo-Iranian Journal

شماره جلد

61/4

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1572-8536

اصطلاح موضوعی

*Buddhadhātuśāstra

اصطلاح موضوعی

*Kāśyapaparivarta-ṭīkā

اصطلاح موضوعی

Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit

اصطلاح موضوعی

Kāśyapaparivarta

اصطلاح موضوعی

Madhyāntavibhāga-bhāṣya

اصطلاح موضوعی

Madhyāntavibhāga-ṭīkā

اصطلاح موضوعی

Mahāyāna literature

اصطلاح موضوعی

Middle Indo-Aryan

اصطلاح موضوعی

play and seriousness

اصطلاح موضوعی

puns

اصطلاح موضوعی

Sanskritization

اصطلاح موضوعی

Yogācāra-Vijñānavāda

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Ruixuan Chen

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15728536-06104005

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y