Papers 68 by Tadeusz Skorupski
Buddhist Theories of Causality
Contents
Introduction
General Perspectives on Causality
Reference ... more Buddhist Theories of Causality
Contents
Introduction
General Perspectives on Causality
Reference Works
Causality in the Buddha’s Discourses
Karma in the Buddha’s Discourses
Pratītyasamutpāda in the Buddha’s Discourses
Karma and Pratītyasamutpāda in Abhidharma Sources
Kamma and Paticcasamuppāda in Theravada Abhidhamma
Karma and Pratītyasamutpāda in Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma
Hetu and Pratyaya in Abhidharma Sources
Hetu and Paccaya in Theravada Abhidhamma
Hetu and Pratyaya in Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma
Sautrāntika Theory of Seeds (bīja)
Causality in the Mahayana
Causality in the Madhyamaka
Nāgārjuna’s Seminal Works on Causality
Commentaries and Studies on Nāgārjuna
Causality in the Yogācāra
Selected Yogācāra Texts
Selected Studies on Yogācāra
Karma in the Mahayana
Academic Papers on Karma
Academic Papers on Pratītyasamutpāda
Academic Papers on Selected Topics
Causality and Soteriology (Mārga)
Early Buddhist Philosophy (Abhidharma/Abhidhamma)
Tadeusz Skorupski
Contents:
Introduction,
Extan... more Early Buddhist Philosophy (Abhidharma/Abhidhamma)
Tadeusz Skorupski
Contents:
Introduction,
Extant Abhidharma Piṭakas,
Theravāda Abhidhamma Piṭaka,
Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma Piṭaka,
Dharmaguptaka Śāriputra Abhidharma Śāstra,
Synoptic Guides to the Abhidharma Piṭaka,
Theravāda Commentaries,
Sarvāstivāda Commentaries,
Abhidharma Synopses,
Theravāda Abhidhamma Synopses,
Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma Synopses,
Reference Works,
Historical and Textual Studies on the Abhidharma Treatises,
Academic Handbooks and General Studies,
Studies on Abhidharma Concepts and Topics,
Studies on Abhidharma Soteriological Topics.
Published in
Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Edited by Richar... more Published in
Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Edited by Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel
Oxford University Press USA, 2015, 67-125.
This essay offers an unpretentious survey of the conceptual and yogic permutations of fire, and is based on a selection of Vedic and Buddhist sources. Part One provides an overview of the Vedic perceptions of fire and fire sacrifices, and is intended to serve as a background scenario to the Buddhist interpretations of fire.
Part Two ascertains the Buddhist reinterpretation of the Vedic fires and sacrifices, and sketches the Buddhist assimilation of the god Agni and homa rituals.
Part Three explores the Buddhist expositions of the fire element (tejodhātu) and wisdom fire (jñāna-agni). These two categories of fire are not discussed in isolation, but their respective expositions are integrated into the relevant doctrines and practices. The fire element is treated as part of the Abhidharma cosmology, and as part of the mundane path (laukika-mārga), while wisdom fire is treated as part of the supramundane path (lokottara-mārga).
Practices Conducive to Enlightenment
This paper provides a synopsis of chapters 31-38 of Étienne Lamotte’s French translation of Mahāp... more This paper provides a synopsis of chapters 31-38 of Étienne Lamotte’s French translation of Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra attributed to Nāgārjuna, and translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva in 404 or 405 CE. Chapters 31-38 of this treatise provide a comprehensive exposition of three groups of practices that are conducive to the attainment of enlightenment: one primary group of thirty-seven bodhipākṣikas, one group of eight complementary practices, and one group of six additional practices.
The Institute of Buddhist Studies. Tring UK, 2002
The present publication is essentially an abridged version of the exposition of the six perfectio... more The present publication is essentially an abridged version of the exposition of the six perfections as given in the Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra translated from the Chinese into French by E. Lamotte. The treatment of the six perfections is included in the second volume of Lamotte's translation which amounts to 492 pages. With some modifications and adjustments of style, the present abridged version follows the basic structure and lay out of the text and annotations as
found in Lamotte's translation.
The content and lay out of the pdf file included here is the same as in the original publication, but the pagination is different.
This paper provides a synopsis of chapter forty-eight of Étienne Lamotte’s French translation of ... more This paper provides a synopsis of chapter forty-eight of Étienne Lamotte’s French translation of Mahāprajñāpāramitāśāstra attributed to Nāgājuna, and translated into Chinese by Kumārajīva in 404 or 405 CE. Chapter forty-eight of this treatise provides a comprehensive exposition of eighteen categories of emptiness. Part One of this paper sums up Lamotte’s preliminary notes to his translation of this chapter. Part Two recapitulates Nāgārjuna’s Śāstra exposition of the eighteen categories of emptiness.
The Middle Way. Journal of the Buddhist Society. August 2000. Vol. 75, No.2, 95-106.
The major stages in the development of the Bodhisattva concept from the time of its appearance in... more The major stages in the development of the Bodhisattva concept from the time of its appearance in early Buddhism to the time of becoming a universal ideal in Mahåyåna Buddhism can be demarcated with some certainty provided one is aware of certain lacunae in our knowledge of three crucial factors. First, the precise historical chronology of specific ideas advanced in different sources is somewhat complex because of difficulties involved in dating Buddhist texts and historical events. Second, certain ideas formulated about the Bodhisattva in later texts were imputed retrospectively and superimposed on the more primitive form of the Bodhisattva concept. Third, the vital factors, both historical and doctrinal, which induced the emergence of Mahåyåna as such and its formulation of the Bodhisattva ideal remain unknown or obscured. Thus, for instance, we cannot locate the precise origin of the Bodhisattva concept and we do not possess the vital information on the intellectual and social milieu in which the Bodhisattva ideal of Mahåyåna was formulated. In addition to that, it is also important to remember that the various ideas and formulations about the Bodhisattva do not readily mould together into one historically and conceptually coherent image. As we shall see, the content and structure of the Bodhisattva ideal and career did not evolve in neatly cut monolithic blocks that were eventually fitted together into a well designed edifice. On the contrary as Buddhist history progressed the doctrinal speculations about the Bodhisattva's identity and career developed in different directions to the extent that the Bodhisattva's identity and role, even in its mature Mahåyåna version, contains certain conflicting elements.
Article in Encyclopedia of Religion. Mircea Eliade, Editor in Chief. 1987.
Article in Encyclopedia of Religion. Mircea Eliade, Editor in Chief. 1987.
Religions of South Asia 8.1 (2014) 53-81
ABSTRACT: This article offers a broad survey of the Buddhist interpretations of consciousness as ... more ABSTRACT: This article offers a broad survey of the Buddhist interpretations of consciousness as an integral component of the various taxonomies of animate life, and as it evolves and functions in its karmic or mundane, and its purified or supramundane conditions. It discusses the concepts set out in the texts of Abhidharma, and their interpretation by different schools. It shows the complex and intricate
discussion among Buddhist thinkers of the nature and different aspects of consciousness, and suggests that they still leave some problems unresolved.
Clouds in nature, mythology, and art.
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1992
A collection of 23 Papers in honour and appreciation of David L. Snellgrove’s contribution to Ind... more A collection of 23 Papers in honour and appreciation of David L. Snellgrove’s contribution to Indo-Tibetan Studies
An analytic summary of the Kriyāsaṃgraha.
The Institute of Buddhist Studies. Tring UK, 2002
The present publication essentially represents an abridged version of the entire Kriyāsaṃgraha. T... more The present publication essentially represents an abridged version of the entire Kriyāsaṃgraha. The basic structure, the chapter divisions, the sequence of the exposition within the chapters, and the laconic style, have been retained. Some sections of the original text have been paraphrased, some summarized, some translated, and some omitted altogether.
The content and lay out of the pdf file included here is the same as in the original publication, but the pagination is different.
Contents
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1990
Abbreviations.... more Contents
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1990
Abbreviations........................................................................vii
Introduction...........................................................................1
R.F. Gombrich
Recovering the Buddha’s Message....................................5
R.F. Gombrich
How the Mahāyāna Began................................................21
K.R. Norman
Pāli Philology and the Study of Buddhism.......................31
A. Huxley
How Buddhist is Theravāda Buddhist Law?.....................41
T.H. Barrett
Kill the Patriarchs!................................................................87
T.H. Barrett
Exploratory Observations on Some Weeping Pilgrims...99
I. Astley-Kristensen
Images and Permutations of Vajrasattva
in the Vajradhātumaṇḍala................................................111
CONTENTS
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1992
Abbreviations...... more CONTENTS
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1992
Abbreviations............................................................................vii
List of Illustrations.....................................................................ix
Introduction...............................................................................xi
T.H. Barrett
Devil’s Valley to Omega Point: Reflections on
the Emergence of a Theme from the Nō..............................1
T.H. Barrett
Buddhism, Taoism and the Rise of the City Gods................13
L.S. Cousins
The ‘Five Points’ and the Origins of the Buddhist Schools...27
P.T. Denwood
Some Formative Inf1uences in Mahāyāna Buddhist Art…...61
G. Dorje
The rNying-ma Interpretation of Commitment and Vow…..71
Ch.E. Freeman
Saṃvṛti, Vyavahāra and Paramārtha inthe Akṣamatinirdeśa
and its Commentary by Vasubandhu….................................97
D.N. Gellner
Monk, Househo1der and Priest: What the Three Yānas
Mean to Newar Buddhists...................................................115
C. Hallisey
Councils as Ideas and Events in the Theravāda…………....133
S. Hookham
The Practical Implications of the Doctrine of
Buddha-nature……................................................................149
R. Mayer
Observations on the Tibetan Phur-ba and
the Indian Kīla ........................................................................163
K.R. Norman
Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanical Hinduism:
Brahmanical Terms in a Buddhist Guise……………..............193
References...............................................................................201
Contents
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1992
Preface ......... more Contents
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1992
Preface .............................................................................. viii
Abbreviations ..................................................................... ix
Works of David Seyfort Ruegg .......................................... xiii
Helmut Eimer & Pema Tsering, Bonn
Legs skar /Skar bzang / Sunakṣatra ................................... 1
Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol
Bhavaṅga and Rebirth According to the Abhidhamma .... 11
Minoru Hara, University of Tokyo
Deva-garbha and Tathāgata-garbha ................................... 37
Stephen Hodge, London
Considerations on the Dating and Geographical Origins of
the Mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhi-sūtra ............................... 57
David Jackson, University of Hamburg
The Status of Pramāṇa Doctrine According to Sa skya
Paṇḍita and Other Tibetan Masters: Theoretical
Discipline or Doctrine of Liberation? ................................ 85
Per Kværne, University of Oslo
The Bon Religion of Tibet: A Survey of Research .............131
Karen Lang, University of Virginia
Meditation as a Tool for Deconstructing
the Phenomenal World ..................................................... 143
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., University of Michigan
dGe ’dun Chos ’phel’s Position on Vigrahavyāvartinī 29 . 161
Stewart McFarlane, University of Lancaster
Fighting Bodhisattvas and Inner Warriors: Buddhism and
the Martial Traditions of China and Japan .......................... 185
Kenneth R. Norman, University of Cambridge
Mistaken Ideas about Nibbāna .......................................... 211
Kenneth R. Norman, University of Cambridge
A Note on silāvigaḍabhīcā in Aśoka’s Rummindei
Inscription .......................................................................... 227
Alexander Piatigorsky, SOAS
Some Observations on the Notion of Tathāgatagarbha ... 239
Cristina A. Scherrer-Schaub, University of Lausanne
Tendance de la Pensée de Candrakīrti,
Buddhajñāna et Jinakriyā ...................................................... 249
Gregory Schopen, University at Austin, Texas
Stūpa and Tīrtha: Tibetan Mortuary Practices and an
Unrecognized Form of Burial Ad Sanctos
at Buddhist Sites in India....................................................... 273
Tom J.F. Tillemans, University of Lausanne
Pre-Dharmakīrti Commentators on Dignāga’s Definition
of a Thesis (pakṣalakṣaṇa) .....................................................295
Paul Williams, University or Bristol
On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments
on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97–98 ...........................................ary
The Bodhisattvapiṭaka and the Akṣayamatinirdeśa:
Continuity and Change in Buddhist Sūtras ....................... 333
Tadeusz Skorupski, SOAS
A Prayer for Rebirth in the Sukhāvatī ................................. 375
Bibliography............................................................................ 411
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Papers 68 by Tadeusz Skorupski
Contents
Introduction
General Perspectives on Causality
Reference Works
Causality in the Buddha’s Discourses
Karma in the Buddha’s Discourses
Pratītyasamutpāda in the Buddha’s Discourses
Karma and Pratītyasamutpāda in Abhidharma Sources
Kamma and Paticcasamuppāda in Theravada Abhidhamma
Karma and Pratītyasamutpāda in Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma
Hetu and Pratyaya in Abhidharma Sources
Hetu and Paccaya in Theravada Abhidhamma
Hetu and Pratyaya in Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma
Sautrāntika Theory of Seeds (bīja)
Causality in the Mahayana
Causality in the Madhyamaka
Nāgārjuna’s Seminal Works on Causality
Commentaries and Studies on Nāgārjuna
Causality in the Yogācāra
Selected Yogācāra Texts
Selected Studies on Yogācāra
Karma in the Mahayana
Academic Papers on Karma
Academic Papers on Pratītyasamutpāda
Academic Papers on Selected Topics
Causality and Soteriology (Mārga)
Tadeusz Skorupski
Contents:
Introduction,
Extant Abhidharma Piṭakas,
Theravāda Abhidhamma Piṭaka,
Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma Piṭaka,
Dharmaguptaka Śāriputra Abhidharma Śāstra,
Synoptic Guides to the Abhidharma Piṭaka,
Theravāda Commentaries,
Sarvāstivāda Commentaries,
Abhidharma Synopses,
Theravāda Abhidhamma Synopses,
Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma Synopses,
Reference Works,
Historical and Textual Studies on the Abhidharma Treatises,
Academic Handbooks and General Studies,
Studies on Abhidharma Concepts and Topics,
Studies on Abhidharma Soteriological Topics.
Homa Variations: The Study of Ritual Change across the Longue Durée
Edited by Richard K. Payne and Michael Witzel
Oxford University Press USA, 2015, 67-125.
This essay offers an unpretentious survey of the conceptual and yogic permutations of fire, and is based on a selection of Vedic and Buddhist sources. Part One provides an overview of the Vedic perceptions of fire and fire sacrifices, and is intended to serve as a background scenario to the Buddhist interpretations of fire.
Part Two ascertains the Buddhist reinterpretation of the Vedic fires and sacrifices, and sketches the Buddhist assimilation of the god Agni and homa rituals.
Part Three explores the Buddhist expositions of the fire element (tejodhātu) and wisdom fire (jñāna-agni). These two categories of fire are not discussed in isolation, but their respective expositions are integrated into the relevant doctrines and practices. The fire element is treated as part of the Abhidharma cosmology, and as part of the mundane path (laukika-mārga), while wisdom fire is treated as part of the supramundane path (lokottara-mārga).
found in Lamotte's translation.
The content and lay out of the pdf file included here is the same as in the original publication, but the pagination is different.
discussion among Buddhist thinkers of the nature and different aspects of consciousness, and suggests that they still leave some problems unresolved.
The content and lay out of the pdf file included here is the same as in the original publication, but the pagination is different.
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1990
Abbreviations........................................................................vii
Introduction...........................................................................1
R.F. Gombrich
Recovering the Buddha’s Message....................................5
R.F. Gombrich
How the Mahāyāna Began................................................21
K.R. Norman
Pāli Philology and the Study of Buddhism.......................31
A. Huxley
How Buddhist is Theravāda Buddhist Law?.....................41
T.H. Barrett
Kill the Patriarchs!................................................................87
T.H. Barrett
Exploratory Observations on Some Weeping Pilgrims...99
I. Astley-Kristensen
Images and Permutations of Vajrasattva
in the Vajradhātumaṇḍala................................................111
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1992
Abbreviations............................................................................vii
List of Illustrations.....................................................................ix
Introduction...............................................................................xi
T.H. Barrett
Devil’s Valley to Omega Point: Reflections on
the Emergence of a Theme from the Nō..............................1
T.H. Barrett
Buddhism, Taoism and the Rise of the City Gods................13
L.S. Cousins
The ‘Five Points’ and the Origins of the Buddhist Schools...27
P.T. Denwood
Some Formative Inf1uences in Mahāyāna Buddhist Art…...61
G. Dorje
The rNying-ma Interpretation of Commitment and Vow…..71
Ch.E. Freeman
Saṃvṛti, Vyavahāra and Paramārtha inthe Akṣamatinirdeśa
and its Commentary by Vasubandhu….................................97
D.N. Gellner
Monk, Househo1der and Priest: What the Three Yānas
Mean to Newar Buddhists...................................................115
C. Hallisey
Councils as Ideas and Events in the Theravāda…………....133
S. Hookham
The Practical Implications of the Doctrine of
Buddha-nature……................................................................149
R. Mayer
Observations on the Tibetan Phur-ba and
the Indian Kīla ........................................................................163
K.R. Norman
Theravāda Buddhism and Brahmanical Hinduism:
Brahmanical Terms in a Buddhist Guise……………..............193
References...............................................................................201
The online pagination 2012 corresponds to the hard copy pagination 1992
Preface .............................................................................. viii
Abbreviations ..................................................................... ix
Works of David Seyfort Ruegg .......................................... xiii
Helmut Eimer & Pema Tsering, Bonn
Legs skar /Skar bzang / Sunakṣatra ................................... 1
Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol
Bhavaṅga and Rebirth According to the Abhidhamma .... 11
Minoru Hara, University of Tokyo
Deva-garbha and Tathāgata-garbha ................................... 37
Stephen Hodge, London
Considerations on the Dating and Geographical Origins of
the Mahāvairocanābhisaṃbodhi-sūtra ............................... 57
David Jackson, University of Hamburg
The Status of Pramāṇa Doctrine According to Sa skya
Paṇḍita and Other Tibetan Masters: Theoretical
Discipline or Doctrine of Liberation? ................................ 85
Per Kværne, University of Oslo
The Bon Religion of Tibet: A Survey of Research .............131
Karen Lang, University of Virginia
Meditation as a Tool for Deconstructing
the Phenomenal World ..................................................... 143
Donald S. Lopez, Jr., University of Michigan
dGe ’dun Chos ’phel’s Position on Vigrahavyāvartinī 29 . 161
Stewart McFarlane, University of Lancaster
Fighting Bodhisattvas and Inner Warriors: Buddhism and
the Martial Traditions of China and Japan .......................... 185
Kenneth R. Norman, University of Cambridge
Mistaken Ideas about Nibbāna .......................................... 211
Kenneth R. Norman, University of Cambridge
A Note on silāvigaḍabhīcā in Aśoka’s Rummindei
Inscription .......................................................................... 227
Alexander Piatigorsky, SOAS
Some Observations on the Notion of Tathāgatagarbha ... 239
Cristina A. Scherrer-Schaub, University of Lausanne
Tendance de la Pensée de Candrakīrti,
Buddhajñāna et Jinakriyā ...................................................... 249
Gregory Schopen, University at Austin, Texas
Stūpa and Tīrtha: Tibetan Mortuary Practices and an
Unrecognized Form of Burial Ad Sanctos
at Buddhist Sites in India....................................................... 273
Tom J.F. Tillemans, University of Lausanne
Pre-Dharmakīrti Commentators on Dignāga’s Definition
of a Thesis (pakṣalakṣaṇa) .....................................................295
Paul Williams, University or Bristol
On Altruism and Rebirth: Philosophical Comments
on Bodhicaryāvatāra 8: 97–98 ...........................................ary
The Bodhisattvapiṭaka and the Akṣayamatinirdeśa:
Continuity and Change in Buddhist Sūtras ....................... 333
Tadeusz Skorupski, SOAS
A Prayer for Rebirth in the Sukhāvatī ................................. 375
Bibliography............................................................................ 411