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- Title
Oneself as Another: Yantraputraka Metaphors in Buddhist Literature.
- Authors
Zhao, You
- Abstract
While Buddhist teachings deny the presence of a stable, unchanging self, they must still make sense of human agency. In this article, I look through metaphors of mechanical men in Buddhist literature, which inform us of attempts to tackle the problem by resorting to figurative speech. With a selection of examples, we shall see not only a basic rationale of these metaphors, as well as the dynamics of their usage in Buddhist texts against different doctrinal backgrounds, but also their meta-philosophical role in penetrating through the agent-oriented "universe of discourse".
- Subjects
DHARMA in Buddhism; AGENT (Philosophy); METAPHOR; LITERATURE; SPEECH; BUDDHISTS
- Publication
Religions, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 4, p503
- ISSN
2077-1444
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/rel14040503