Early Buddhist Texts: Their Composition and Transmission

This article discusses the composition and transmission of early Buddhist texts with specific reference to sutras. After briefly summarizing the main reasons why it is likely that these oral compositions were designed to be memorized and transmitted verbatim, I will discuss the main types of changes...

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Autor principal: Allon, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8789374/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35095115
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10781-021-09499-6
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spelling pubmed-87893742022-01-26 Early Buddhist Texts: Their Composition and Transmission Allon, Mark J Indian Philos Article This article discusses the composition and transmission of early Buddhist texts with specific reference to sutras. After briefly summarizing the main reasons why it is likely that these oral compositions were designed to be memorized and transmitted verbatim, I will discuss the main types of changes that these texts underwent in the course of their transmission and the reasons such changes occurred, then attempt to give an account of the challenge that change, particularly intentional change, posed to the oral transmission of fixed, memorized texts. Springer Netherlands 2022-01-26 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8789374/ /pubmed/35095115 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10781-021-09499-6 Text en © Crown 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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