journal articles and book chapters by Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Encyclopedia of Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Other Contemplative Practices, 2024
Early Buddhist meditation addresses experiential subjectivity by adopting a middle path between a... more Early Buddhist meditation addresses experiential subjectivity by adopting a middle path between an absolute endorsement and a summary dismissal, instead aiming to discern its dependently arisen character. Insight into the constructed nature of experience is instrumental to gradually freeing oneself from all unwholesome distortions and eventually stepping out of all constructions.
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Encyclopedia of Mindfulness, Buddhism, and Other Contemplative Practices, 2024
Early Buddhism sees concepts as integral to conditioned subjective experience, with meditation in... more Early Buddhism sees concepts as integral to conditioned subjective experience, with meditation involving both conceptual and nonconceptual approaches. Mindfulness is compatible with the presence of concepts and their deliberate engagement.
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Encyclopedia of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the first page of the article], 2024
In early Buddhist thought personal identity and self-identification are defined by the construct ... more In early Buddhist thought personal identity and self-identification are defined by the construct of the five aggregates. In a fully awakened individual, personal identity persists, but the aggregates function without clinging and attachment to a reified self-concept. Although the belief in a permanent self is considered fundamentally erroneous, the not-self teaching does not entail a rejection of personal identity altogether nor a problematization of conventional self-referencing.
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Encyclopedia of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the first page of the article], 2024
In the early Buddhist analysis of experience, subject and object are correlative with each other,... more In the early Buddhist analysis of experience, subject and object are correlative with each other, being processes established in reciprocal dependence that are considered as caused, conditioned, and relational rather than being seen as absolutes. Valid first-person knowledge of the construction of subjectivity is rooted in the Buddha’s own awakening, having utmost epistemic and soteriological value.
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Encyclopedia of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the first page of the article], 2024
The nurturing of sympathetic care and concern for others in everyday life, coupled with specific ... more The nurturing of sympathetic care and concern for others in everyday life, coupled with specific intentions and perceptions of compassion cultivated in meditation, holds significance for Theravāda disciples in training toward the traditional four stages of awakening outlined in early Buddhist soteriology.
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Annual Report of the International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology, 2024
This note presents a Gandharan stucco figurine in the Civico Museo Archeologico in Milan, probabl... more This note presents a Gandharan stucco figurine in the Civico Museo Archeologico in Milan, probably originating from Hadda, depicting a bhikṣuṇī. Cautiously dated around the second century AD or, more likely, later, this piece constitutes a rare iconographic testimony to the presence of female Buddhist monastics in Gandhāra.
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Siddham: Studies in Iranian Philology in Honour of Mauro Maggi [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the volume's front matter and the first page of the article], 2024
This article draws attention to a verse in the fifth chapter of the Old Khotanese Book of Zambast... more This article draws attention to a verse in the fifth chapter of the Old Khotanese Book of Zambasta. The verse (Z 5.86) features a simile on the dying of a cloth and contains the rare word rrahamua-. The implications of the simile in relation to Buddhist soteriology provide insights on the doctrinal positioning of the chapter as a whole within the broader doctrinal framework of the Book of Zambasta.
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Encyclopedia of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the first page of the article], 2024
Visualization practices in Buddhist meditative traditions deploy visual perception to enhance con... more Visualization practices in Buddhist meditative traditions deploy visual perception to enhance concentration or insight. Diverse instructions reveal the evolving interplay of meditation theories and practices in different teaching and textual environments.
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Encyclopedia of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the first page of the article], 2024
“Vinaya” designates the body of teachings and texts pertaining to monastic discipline whose promu... more “Vinaya” designates the body of teachings and texts pertaining to monastic discipline whose promulgation is attributed to the historical Buddha.
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Encyclopedia of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the first page of the article], 2024
“Middle-period Indian Buddhism” designates the first distinctly discernible phase of religio-hist... more “Middle-period Indian Buddhism” designates the first distinctly discernible phase of religio-historical and textual stratification that is posterior to the early Buddhist oral records and teachings.
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Encyclopedia of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the first page of the article], 2024
Buddhist ethics is epistemically and soteriologically rooted in the realization of awakening. Dis... more Buddhist ethics is epistemically and soteriologically rooted in the realization of awakening. Discernment between the wholesome and the unwholesome, and the decision to embrace the wholesome, form the capacity for moral life. The strong interest in a transformative moral psychology centered on subjective experience characterizes moral discourse as a moral phenomenology, where the training in ethics and the training in mindfulness incrementally reinforce each other.
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Encyclopedia of mindfulness, Buddhism, and other contemplative practices [note: due to copyright restrictions this PDF file only contains the first page of the article], 2023
Bhavaṅga most commonly features as a member of the compound bhavaṅga-citta, which stands for the ... more Bhavaṅga most commonly features as a member of the compound bhavaṅga-citta, which stands for the aspect of the “mind” (Pāli: citta) (often also translated as “consciousness” in this context) that functions as an ongoing “constituent of becoming” (Pāli: bhava + aṅga) of subjective experience. In the mapping of the mind according to Theravāda Buddhism, bhavaṅga designates subliminal and frequently occurring mind moments understood as a specific modality or function of the mental process.
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Śāntamatiḥ: Manuscripts for Life, Essays in Memory of Seishi Karashima, 2023
This study examines the formulaic definition of right view stated as the antithesis of wrong view... more This study examines the formulaic definition of right view stated as the antithesis of wrong view occurring in a textual module stemming from discourses (as well as Vinaya texts) transmitted by different lineages of recitation of the early Buddhist oral corpus. The definition distinguishes between ‘there is not’ (wrong view) and ‘there is’ (right view) what is given, etc. After a brief introduction (I), the study begins by providing the text and translation of an occurrence of the module in a discourse quotation from the exposition on the ‘Great Forty’ in Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā (Up 6080), first presenting the formulation for wrong view (II) and variations found in parallel versions of the module (II.1), and then taking up the corresponding module for right view (III). After that it draws out the essential doctrinal and soteriological import of the assertion statement (III), whose endorsement is not seen as exclusively Buddhist (III.1). This is followed by a closer look at the unexpected reference to sacrifice and oblation in several versions of the textual unit in question (IV), examined in the light of the early Buddhist renegotiation of giving and sacrifice (IV.1–2). The study concludes with reflections on the significance of the affirmation of the efficacy of sacrifice and its relationship to giving in the Buddhist formulation of right view (V).
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Buddhist Thought & Application, Essays in Honour of Professor P. D. Premasiri, G. A. Somaratne, Wadinagala Pannaloka, Jnan Nanda Tanchangya (ed.), 2021
This paper looks at one implication of the Buddha’s declaration of accomplishment in emancipating... more This paper looks at one implication of the Buddha’s declaration of accomplishment in emancipating knowledge through the attainment of full awakening. A passage in the Pali version of the Saṅgārava-sutta of the Majjhima-nikāya – read in comparison with a Sanskrit version preserved in the Dīrgha-āgama manuscript from Gilgit – enumerates the pathways recognised in ancient India before and during the Buddha’s time as the epistemic grounds for claims to such knowledge. This may be read to suggest that early Buddhist thought forestalled the limitations of exclusively rational or analytical approaches to the pursuit of emancipating knowledge.
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Mindfulness, 2021
Stand-alone self-compassion or mindful self-compassion, presented independently from the cultivat... more Stand-alone self-compassion or mindful self-compassion, presented independently from the cultivation of other-oriented compassion, has recently emerged as a specific field of secular training and research. Its purported Buddhist background has so far received limited attention in academic scholarship. This article surveys Buddhist precedents—or lack thereof—to the contemporary emergence of this notion. In view of the yet to be established presence of an altruistic component as a psychological corollary of self-compassion, an analysis of the Buddhist sources may offer insights relevant for facilitating future research on the self-other relationship in self-kindness (or self-benevolence) and self-compassion constructs and on altruistic aspects as correlates of self-compassion.
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The Indian International Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2020
This study takes up the first occurrence in Buddhist literature of an illustrative simile compari... more This study takes up the first occurrence in Buddhist literature of an illustrative simile comparing the five aggregates (Sanskrit skandhas/Pali khandhas) to a chariot (ratha), found in an early discourse attested in different parallel versions (SN 5.10, SĀ 1202, SĀ2 218, Up 9014). It introduces and translates the version extant in the Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā (Up 9014), and then comments on this initial formulation of the chariot simile in light of the ancient Indian background against which the early Buddhist texts and teachings emerged. The implications of the distinctive Buddhist use of the chariot imagery in this context appears to be less to the forefront in subsequent uses of the simile in later Buddhist tradition, which tend to shift focus on intra-Buddhist scholastic preoccupations and debates concerning the ontological standing of the person or sentient beings in general. These later developments will be discussed in a follow-up article.
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Dharmayātrā, Felicitation Volume in Honour of Ven. Dr. Tampalawela Dhammaratana, 2021
This paper offers an annotated translation of a discourse from the Ekottarika-āgama (EĀ 39.2), pa... more This paper offers an annotated translation of a discourse from the Ekottarika-āgama (EĀ 39.2), parallel to a discourse in the Madhyama-āgama extant in Chinese translation (MĀ 2), a discourse in the Aṅguttara-nikāya (AN 7.65), and a discourse individually translated into Chinese (T 28). The discourse is rich in symbolism and conjures up the contemplative unfolding of the whole path of practice of a noble disciple of the Buddha through a comparison between the progressive stages in their practice and the stages of the life cycle of the Pārijāta Tree, known in English as the Coral Tree, which typically appears in descriptions of the heavenly landscape of the Thirty-Three.
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Journal of Buddhist Studies, 2020
This paper gives a close-up look at the canonical quotation in the third chapter of the Abhidharm... more This paper gives a close-up look at the canonical quotation in the third chapter of the Abhidharmakośabhāṣya of the opinion that the scent of the Pārijāta Tree spreads fifty leagues against the wind, which is held to be “stated concerning ‘not to exceed a [single] tree’” (vṛkṣānatikramaṃ saṃdhāyoktam ity). The focus is in particular on the corresponding citation found in the third chapter of Śamathadeva’s Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā (Up 3085). The paper presents the text and translation of the Abhidharmakośopāyikā-ṭīkā’s quotation, and then comments on the significance of its textual features in relation to Śamathadeva’s work and his mode of quoting canonical material as well as to the study of the development of the Prajñapti, a work of the Sarvāstivāda Abhidharma Śamathadeva references for this quotation alongside a discourse (sūtra) from the Madhyama-āgama.
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Chen Yibiao 陳一標 (ed.), 《華嚴專宗國際學術研討會論文集》, 臺北市: 財團法人臺北市華嚴蓮社, 2016
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journal articles and book chapters by Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā
Āgama Research Group at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (formerly
Dharma Drum Buddhist College). It comprises nineteen studies, contributed by
eighteen different scholars, on various themes related to the Connected Collections of
discourses (suttas, sūtras) — Saṃyutta-nikāya in Pali, Saṃyukta-āgama in Sanskrit —
transmitted by different early Buddhist lineages of reciters, preserved in their Indic
originals in Gandhari, Pali and Sanskrit as well as in Chinese and Tibetan translations.
This research draws attention to fundamental methodological points posed by the
study of these scriptural collections as windows into the formation of early Buddhist
texts and the organisation of their transmission.
Āgama Research Group at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (formerly
Dharma Drum Buddhist College). It collects academic contributions on various
aspects related to the Middle-length Collections of discourses (sūtras, suttas)
transmitted by different early Buddhist lineages of reciters, preserved in their
Indic originals in Gandhari, Pali and Sanskrit as well as in Chinese and Tibetan
translations.
本論文有注意到「《聲聞地》「慈愍所緣」利益眾生-->《修慈》佛土受樂-->佛土說法(教育)」觀想的展開模式;也注意到《修慈》與《贊書3》「微塵淨土」觀,對於自他身體由「微塵」(paramāṇava, ggurvīca)所成的觀想,兩個文獻都有如下特性的描述:(1)地、水、火、風和合所成,於一一微塵之內,皆有虛空(ātāśi),此內在的空間如同外在的空間,可以容納一切。(2)清淨明徹,外如瑠璃,內如紫金。(3)視覺上是「光耀」(brūñāre),觸覺上是柔軟(nauna),嗅覺上是「香氣」(buśśä)。《贊書3》似乎特別重視「微塵」觀想的特性,在Z 37對於所有眾生(他身)的「微塵」描述,除了沒有像《修慈》省略如自身微塵之描述「極淨、如瑠璃、光耀如純金,天香氣味」之外,更增加了「觸覺柔軟」。在「乙、觀三世劫念相攝(Z 111-140)」的「國土微塵」,於Z 118也是增加《修慈》所沒有的「到處香氣、光耀清柔」對於的「微塵」觀想描述,這或許是反映于闐沙漠地區獨特的「微塵淨土」觀。此外,#C´5「從微塵見佛與聖眾身」(Z 93cd-97=4.5頌)也是《贊書3》獨有敘述。
關鍵詞:華嚴經、修慈分、于闐語《贊巴斯特之書》、禪觀、微塵