著者
飯國 有佳子
出版者
パーリ学仏教文化学会
雑誌
パーリ学仏教文化学 (ISSN:09148604)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.33, pp.39-58, 2019 (Released:2020-08-14)

Arguments regarding anthropological studies of religion in Myanmar have primarily focused on how to comprehend canonical Theravāda Buddhism and indigenous spiritual worship. In contrast with Spiro’s dualistic argument, which regards Burmese Buddhism and spiritual worship as comprising independent religious fields, Brac de la Perrière does “not consider the spirit cult a religion unto itself, but as part of Burmese religion” and views “Burma’s mainstream religion as a religious system that incorporates within the Buddhist framework practices of seemingly different horizons such as the spirit cult or the weikza cult” [Brac de la Perrière 2009]. Furthermore, Brac de la Perrière indicates that the “nat line” and “dat line”, which are distinguished by ritual specialists such as spiritual mediums, emerged as fluctuating domains in an overall fluid religious landscape [Brac de la Perrière 2014]. Although my study supports the argument of Brac de la Perrière, her study lacks not only non-specialists’ discourses or practices about spiritual beings or “non-human” agencies but also an analysis of Pāli canons concerning spiritual beings, despite canonical knowledge being the main component of the framework of reference for “orthodox” Buddhism. To further develop these arguments, I will focus on practices and discourses of spiritual beings called thaik, which are viewed as an adjunctive subordination of nat [Spiro 1967]. After considering basic configurations about thaik, such as differences between thaik and ouksasaun, the world of thaik, or the relationship between thaik and human beings, I will show how thaiks are written in Pāli canons. Through these arguments, I will indicate that discourses or practices about thaik have appeared through a process of re-rationalization of a group of spiritual beings within the framework of “orthodox” Buddhism based on the criticism of belief in indigenous, unseen spiritual beings. Further, it shall be Pāli canons that boosts the existence and agencies of thaik through the intermediary of rejoicing for transmitting merit (anumodana).
著者
蓑輪 顕量
出版者
パーリ学仏教文化学会
雑誌
パーリ学仏教文化学 (ISSN:09148604)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.26, pp.169-191, 2012

Not only Buddhist deities but also indigenous Korean deities have been worshiped at Buddhist temples in Korea. The indigenous deities include mountain deities (山神), solitary saints (獨聖) and the Big Dipper (七星神). They have been worshipped since the early period of Korean history when Buddhism was introduced. Among these deities, mountain deities in particular had a significant impact on Buddhism in Korea. They probably began to be worshiped in Buddhist temples during the Baekje (百濟) era. Another important characteristic of Korean Buddhism is its adoption of the assembly of deities called shenzhong (Jp. sinshu神衆), who are said to have derived from the Huayuan jing (華嚴經). In the 20^<th> century, Buddhist monks claimed that in order to purify Buddhist faith, Buddhist and indigenous deities should be separated. However, despite their claim, ordinary people still remain syncretic in their faith, which makes it difficult to separate the two.
著者
天野 信
出版者
パーリ学仏教文化学会
雑誌
パーリ学仏教文化学 (ISSN:09148604)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.28, pp.1-20, 2014

The purpose of this paper is to point out that the Mahapadanasuttanta (=MAP; Skt. Mahavadanasutra; Chinese version 大本経) is the fundamental source of the four excursions in various biographies of the Buddha. The four excursions are represented as the central factor in Buddha's renunciation. On the other hand, MAP is a biography of the seven former Buddhas which includes the four excursions. MAP is the only text which preserves the four excursions in the four Nikayas. Takamichi Fukita argues that MAP fixed the concept of "the common career for all Buddhas" by placing it within the ideology of the Seven Former Buddhas. Through a close examination of MAP, it is shown that the God in the Heaven of the Pure Mansion knows in detail "the common career for all Buddhas." Therefore the later Pali commentary Mahapadanasuttanta- atthakatha explains the situation of the four excursions as being produced by the God in the Heaven of the Pure Mansion. A similar description is handed down concerning the four excursions in the Nidanakatha as the Buddha's biography in the Theravada tradition. In this connection, the Nidanakatha refers to the four excursions as a quotation from MAP. In addition, this case appears frequently in Northern Buddhist texts which contain the Buddha's biography. Thus, it can be said that the descriptions of the four excursions in various biographies of the Buddha presuppose MAP and its Sanskrit and Chinese versions. As a result the God in the Heaven of the Pure Mansion in MAP is presented as a guide for Buddha's renunciation.
著者
井上 ウィマラ
出版者
パーリ学仏教文化学会
雑誌
パーリ学仏教文化学 (ISSN:09148604)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.31, pp.73-88, 2017 (Released:2019-02-01)

Practice of taking care of the sick among ordained practitioners during the Buddha’s time seems to have carried critical importance. Therefore, five conditions of a good caregiver for the sick and five conditions of a difficult patient to take care are elaborated in Vinaya. This paper surveys the context as to why the practice of nursing had such an importance in Buddhist practice from the standpoint of mindfulness meditation and modern clinical education in nursing. The author will share the insights obtained from university education of spiritual care about the third condition of a good care giver for the sick (giving care with loving kindness, not from an expectation of something); the awareness of the unconscious motivation to become a care giver will support him/her to survive and attain emotional maturation through the difficulties of clinical practice. Roshi Joan Halifax created the G.R.A.C.E. program in order to prevent burnout syndrome in terminal care, with her students who practice Buddhist meditations and also are educators in the medical environment. We will examine this G.R.A.C.E. program from the perspective of traditional understanding of Buddhist meditation practice: mindfulness (sati-paṭṭhāna), the three steps of learning (sīla, samādhi, paññā) and the four boundless hearts (appamaññā). Especially in the analysis of the near-enemy and far-enemy of four boundless hearts explained in Visuddhimagga, the emotional maturation of medical practitioners in the clinical human relationship will be examined from the standpoint of integration of ambivalence psychoanalytically. Towards the end of this paper, readers will hopefully have some better understanding about how ancient meditation practices had a fundamental impact on the humane maturational process and how we can improve modern medical practice and education by utilizing those ancient experiential wisdoms.