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- Title
SĀṄKHYA TEACHINGS FOUND IN THERAVADA BUDDHISM: AN INQUIRY INTO AN ANALOGY DEPICTED IN THE VISUDDHIMAGGA.
- Authors
Kumara, Sanjeewa Vijitha
- Abstract
In the study of philosophies in religions, occasionally, parallel concepts among the religions are also found. For that reason, to understand the original form and precisedoctrine of the religions, it is essential to study their history too. The analogy “blind and lame” found in the Visuddhimagga was applied by Buddhaghosa to explain the teaching of Dependent Origination. The same analogywas utilized by Iśvara Kṛṣna to explain the interrelationship betweenPrakṛ ti and Puruṣa in Sāṅkhya Kārikā. In consequence, a doubt arises whether the Theravada Buddhist texts were shaded by non-Buddhist systems accepted soul theory. Also, this doubt leads to misunderstand that the teachings of the Dependent and Origination and Prakṛti and Puruṣa are identical. Nevertheless, examining the historical records related to these two different religious texts and their traditions, it is obvious that they were different teachings in different contexts. So, this article aims to corroborate the variationsof them with reference to the history of religions: Buddhism and Sāṅkhya.
- Subjects
THERAVADA Buddhism; PRATITYASAMUTPADA; BUDDHAGHOSA, 5th century; ANALOGY (Religion); BUDDHISTS
- Publication
Prajna Vihara, 2015, Vol 16, Issue 2, p53
- ISSN
1513-6442
- Publication type
Article