Buddhistisches Zentrum - Das Buddhistische Haus, Buddhistische Gemeinschaft Salzburg, Dhammapala, Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs (English, German, Paperback)

Kapitel: Das Buddhistische Haus, Buddhistische Gemeinschaft Salzburg, Dhammapala, Buddhistisches Zentrum Scheibbs, Mount Baldy Zen Center, Wat Sibounheuang, Bodaisan Shoboji, Friedens-Stupa Zalaszanto, Bodhi Vihara. Aus Wikipedia. Nicht dargestellt. Auszug: Dhammapala was the name of at least two great Theravada Buddhist commentators. One who lived at the Badara Tittha Vihara, near the east coast of India, just a little south of where Chennai now stands, wrote the commentaries on seven of the shorter canonical books, consisting almost entirely of verses, and also the commentary on the Netti, perhaps the oldest Pali work outside the canon. Extracts from the latter work, and the whole of three out of the seven others, have been published in Pali by the Pali Text Society. These works show great learning, exegetical skill and sound judgment. But as to the meaning of words, or to discussions of the ethical import of his texts, very little can be gathered from his writings of value for the social history of his time. For the right interpretation of the difficult texts on which he comments, they are indispensable. Though in all probability a Tamil by birth, he declares, in the opening lines of those of his works that have been edited, that he followed the tradition of the Great Minister (Maha Vihara) at Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, and the works themselves confirm this in every respect. Xuanzang, the famous Chinese pilgrim, tells a quaint story of a Dhammapala of Kanchipura (the modern Konjevaram). He was a son of a high official, and betrothed to a daughter of the king, but escaped on the eve of the wedding feast, entered the order, and attained to reverence and distinction. It is most likely that this story, whether legendary or not (and Xuanzang heard the story at Kanchipura nearly two centuries after the date of Dhammapala), referred to this author. However, it might also refer, as Xuanzang gives it, to another author of the same ...http: //booksllc.net/?l=d