著者名：

Mrozik, Susanne

出版元：

Oxford U.P.

冊数：

vii,184p.

刊行年：

2007

ISBN：

9780195305005

́Śāntideva -- Śikṣāsamuccaya -- Human body -- Buddhism.

Virtuous Bodies breaks new ground in the field of Buddhist ethics by investigating the diverse roles bodies play in ethical development. Traditionally, Buddhists assumed a close connection between body and morality. Thus Buddhist literature contains descriptions of living beings that stink with sin, are disfigured by vices, or are perfumed and adorned with virtues. Taking an influential early medieval Indian Mahāyāna Buddhist text-Śāntideva's Compendium of Training (Śikşāsamuccaya) -as a case study, Susanne Mrozik demonstrates that Buddhists regarded ethical development as a process of physical and moral transformation.

Mrozik chooses The Compendium of Training because it quotes from over one hundred Buddhist scriptures, allowing her to reveal a broader Buddhist interest in the ethical significance of bodies. The text is a training manual for bodhisattvas, especially monastic bodhisattvas. In it, bodies function as markers of, and conditions for, one's own ethical development. Most strikingly, bodies also function as instruments for the ethical development of others. When living beings come into contact with the virtuous bodies of bodhisattvas, they are transformed physically and morally for the better.

1. Introduction to the Compendium of training
2. The vital points of the bodhisattva discipline
3. Ripening living beings
4. Virtuous bodies: a physiomoral discourse on bodies
5. Foul bodies: an ascetic discourse on bodies
6. Revisioning virtue

No.

50313

価格：

6,980円