Mind, Text, and Reality in Buddhist Studies

Paul Fuller is Lecturer in Buddhist Studies at the University of Edinburgh, UK.Indaka Weerasekera is an independent scholar of Buddhist Studies.

‘This collection of interesting articles represents a fitting tribute to the scholarship and good character of Rupert Gethin, one of the most important British Buddhist Studies scholars of his generation. The range of topics covered by the contributions — textual studies, meditation, Abhidharma, Pali grammar, commentarial literature, and myth and cosmology — reflects Rupert’s own diverse interests, while the quality of the articles, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, mirrors the quality of Rupert’s own scholarship.’

• ForewordNotes of AppreciationNote on the TranslationsBuddhist Teachings: Ancient and Modern1. Gods, Demons and Kind Spirits — Buddhist Cosmology and Meaningful Myth, Ajahn Amaro (Amaravati Buddhist Monastery, UK)2. Moving through the Forest: Approaching Textual Representations of Buddhist Meditation like a Great Elephant, Daniel M. Stuart (University of South Carolina, USA)3. Dharma in the Digital Age: Some reflections on Buddhism and Artificial Intelligence, Jane Compson (University of Washington, USA)Abhidharma Studies4. The Fourth Chapter of the Tattvartha Abhidharmakosatika: Causes for Losing Restraint, Non-Restraint and Neither-Restraint-nor-Non-Restraint. Jowita Kramer (Universität Leipzig, Germany) and Kazuo Kano (Koyasan University, Japan)5. Exposing the Rice Ball Trick — How Pali Grammarians Transformed Grammar into a Branch of the Abhidhamma, Aleix Ruiz-Falqués (Shan State Buddhist University, Myanmar)6. ‘Distinguishing the Composite and the Non-composite’: The first chapter of Dasabalasrimitra’s Samskrtasamskrtaviniscaya, Peter Skilling (Chulalongkorn University, Thailand)7. Abhidhamma through numbers, Nalini Balbir (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France) and Javier Schake (École Pratique des Hautes Études, France)8. The Milk Debt to Mother: Abhidhamma in Burmese Buddhism, Pyi Phyo Kyaw (Shan State Buddhist University, Taunggyi, Myanmar)Textual Studies9. Textual Entanglements: Encounters with Gandhari Manuscripts, Collett Cox (University of Washington, USA)10. South Indian and Sri Lankan Buddhist Vinaya Traditions and Discrepancies in their Exegeses, Petra Kieffer-Pülz (Academy of Sciences and Literature, Germany)11. One Hundred and Eight Distinctions of Craving: The *Trsna-sutra of the Samyukagama, Jens-Uwe Hartmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) and (Keiki Nakayama Leipzig University, Germany)