Burning for the Buddha : Self-Immolation in Chinese Buddhism

作者：JamesA.Benn

出版社：UniversityofHawaiiPress

副标题：Self-ImmolationinChineseBuddhism

出版年：2007-2-28

页数：378

定价：USD50.00

装帧：Hardcover

ISBN：9780824829926

内容简介
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Burning for the Buddha is the first book-length study of the theory and practice of "abandoning the body"(self-immolation) in Chinese Buddhism. It examines the hagiographical accounts of all those who made offerings of their own bodies and places them in historical, social, cultural, and doctrinal context. Rather than privilege the doctrinal and exegetical interpretations of the tradition, which assume the central importance of the mind and its cultivation, James Benn focuses on the ways in which the heroic ideals of the bodhisattva present in scriptural materials such as the Lotus Sutra played out in the realm of religious practice on the ground.

作者简介
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James A. Benn is professor of Buddhism and East Asian religions at McMaster University.

目录
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Intro

Contents

Introduction

“Mounting the Smoke with Glittering Colors”

The Lotus Sûtra, Auto-Cremation, and the Indestructible Tongue

Samgha and the State

Is Self-Immolation a “Good Practice”?

Local Heroes in a Fragmenting Empire

One Thousand Years of Self- Immolation

Conclusion

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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还不错，关注到了self-immolation精神性的一面及其被经典化（范式化）的过程。不过我记得之前也读到过有关魏晋南北朝时期僧人self-immolation问题的文章（好像是唐长孺先生写的？），就是魏晋时期的那些底层几乎没什么人关注的僧人常常会一言不合就self-immolation，到不是因为他们认为这样会让他们获得精神上的提升什么的，而是因为这种做法可以以相对小的代价（比如烧手指）获得极…

论文用书，比较有启发的部分是第一章中对僧侣烧身前身体改造的分析（点出道教影响很有趣，可惜没太讲清楚，也未能深入）、以及第四章对延寿《万善同归集》的解读，读的过程中也收获了不少值得再去思考的文本。虽然不应苛求过多，但作者的研究依然更多停留在围绕身体（与身体自残）展开的一系列事件、而非身体本身。自己会很希望再向前走一步。

读了第一章，“Mounting the smoke with Glittering Colors “:Self-immolation in Early Medieval China，从《名僧传》《比丘尼传》和《高僧传》中关于苦节遗身和亡身篇的文本进行分析，主要分为与火不相关的献身类（舍身饲虎的昙称、割肉喂人的道进、救助小儿的僧富以及因伤鸭而死的僧群），和与火中自焚相关的比丘和比丘尼类（法羽、慧绍、…

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