Beginnings of Buddhist ethics
Subtitle: the Chinese parallel to the Kūṭadantasutta
By: edited, translated and compared with the Pāli by Konrad Meisig
Series: East Asia intercultural studies -- 4; Interkulturelle Ostasienstudien -- 4.
Publisher: O. Harrassowitz; Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9783447064590
Subjects: Pāli; Ethik; Kūṭadantasutta; Buddhist ethics; Virtues (Buddhism); Buddhismus; Textvergleich; Tipiṭaka; Chinesisch
Other titles: Chinese parallel to the Kūṭadantasutta; Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Dīghanikāya. Kūṭadantasutta. English.; Tipiṭaka. Suttapiṭaka. Dīghanikāya. Kūṭadantasutta. Chinese.
Description: "The Chinese parallel to the Pali-Kutadantasutta marks one of the major turning points in Old Indian history of ideas: the transition from magic to ethics. In this sermon, the Buddha rejects the Vedic animal sacrifice and re-interprets it according to Buddhist ethics. He preaches sacrifices in a new sense of the word: the sacrifice of giving alms to Buddhist monks, or, even better, of building monasteries, of converting to Buddhism as a Buddhist layman, of obeying the five Buddhist rules for laymen, or - finally and most meritorious - becoming a Buddhist monk. In Beginnings of Buddhist Ethics, Konrad Meisig translates the Buddhist Chinese text for the first time and contrasts it in synopsis with the Pali. The text is given in the original characters along with the Pinyin transcription. The text-critical introduction deals with the variae lectiones both of the Chinese and the Pali; the final analysis focuses on the literary stratification and criticism of forms, thus reconstructing the archetypical nucleus of the Kutadantasutta."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120).

Text in Chinese (original characters and Pinyin transcription), with synopsis in Pali and English translation; commentary in English.
Table of contents: title: Chinese --; title: T = Taishō edition --; title: G = ... Gāoli, the Korean edition --; title: Q = ... Qishā edition --; title: Concordance of columns in T, G, and Q --; title: An haplography in the archetype of the Chinese tradition --; title: Pāli --; title: Ee = Edition of the Pali text society (PTS) --; title: Cj and Cd = The Sinhalese Buddha jayanthi tripitaka series and the Sinhalese digital edition --; title: Cm = The Sinhalese Manatunga edition --; title: Be = The Burmese Chatṭḥasaṅgāyana print edition --; title: Bd = The Chatṭḥasaṅgāyana CD-ROM --; title: Se = the Siamese 'Chulalongkorn edition' --; title: Se2 = The new Siamese edition of 1924-25 A.D. --; title: Ne = Nalanda edition --; title: Sanskrit --; title: Previous studies of the Kūtạdantasūtra --; title: Edition and translation --; title: Narrative framework, introduction (events in the present : Paccuppannavatthu) --; title: Occasion of the proclamation of the Sūtra (T 1.96c 17) --; title: The Brahmin Kūtạdanta and his Virtues (96c20) --; title: The Buddha and his Virtues (97a 1) --; title: The Brahmins desire to visit the Buddha (97a7) --; title: Kūtạdanta's eleven Virtues (97b9) --; title: The Buddha's many superior Virtues (97c4) --; title: Kūtạdanta visits the Buddha, asks about sacrifice (98b10) --; title: The Buddha's instruction on the magic sacrifice (events in the past : Atītavatthu) --; title: The ancient Ksạtriya king's sacrifice (98b26) --; title: Preconditions of a sacrifice (98b29) --; title: Asking permission for a sacrifice (98c14) --; title: Preparations for an unbloody sacrifice (99a8) --; title: The king's eight Virtues (99a14) --; title: The ministers' four Virtues (99a24) --; title: Sixteen arguments in favour of the sacrifice (99b4) --; title: The ten way s of acting (99c27) --; title: Three kinds of useful thinking (100a6) --; title: More preparations for an unbloody sacrifice (100a12) --; title: Sacrifice helpers (100a15) --; title: The unbloody sacrifice (100b4) --; title: The ancient king and his retinue renounce the world, become Buddhist clergy and are reborn in Brahmā's heaven (100b8) --; title: Identification (Samodhāna) : the ancient king of the past is the Buddha in the present (100b17) --; title: The Buddha's instruction on the superior Buddhist sacrifice : its ethical quality --; title: Maintaining Buddhist Monks (100b27) --; title: Building monasteries (100c1) --; title: Converting to Buddhism (100c6) --; title: Observing the five rules of morality (100c13) --; title: Practicing loving kindness meditation (mettā) (100c16) --; title: Renouncing the world, becoming a Buddhist monk (100c19) --; title: Narrative framework, conclusion (events in the present continued : Paccuppannavatthu) --; title: Kūtạdanta sets sacrificial animals free (100c24) --; title: Kūtạdanta converts to Buddhism (100c27) --; title: Invitation (100c29) --; title: The Buddha utters a stanza (gāthā) (101a6) --; title: The Buddha gradually explains his doctrine (ānupubbikathā) (101a14) --; title: Kūtạdanta gains dharma eye, enters the 'stream' (101a20) --; title: Kūtạdanta converts to Buddhism again (101a24) --; title: Second invitation, Buddha leaves (101a26) --; title: Kūtạdanta's death, Buddha announces his state of 'non-returner' (101b1) --; title: Monks rejoice at the Buddha's words (101b8) --; title: Analysis --; title: Literary criticism --; title: Five textual layers of the Kūtạdantasūtra --; title: Summary with stratification --; title: Criticism of forms --; title: Genres --; title: Forms --; title: Apophthegm --; title: Short sermon --; title: Ritual instructions --; title: Travesty --; title: Prediction --; title: Formulas --; title: The nucleus of the Kūtạdantasūtra ---- Abbreviations and bibliography.