The Legend and Cult of Upagupta
Contents
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Praefatium |
xi-xiii |
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Abbreviations |
xv-xviii |
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Introduction |
3 to 19 |
1 |
Provisions for the Buddha's Absence |
23-43 |
2 |
Monk and Monkey : Upa-gupta's Past [Lives] |
44-56 |
3 |
Patriarchs and the Forest-Monk Tradition |
57-74 |
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Lay-life, Ordination, and Arhantship |
75-92 |
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Upa-gupta and Mara |
93-117 |
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Master-Disciple Relations |
118-144 |
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Upa-gupta and A-s`oka |
145-170 |
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Upa-gupta and Orthodoxy |
171-185 |
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The Loka-pan~n~atti Legend |
186-208 |
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Mythic Elaborations and Ritual Developments |
209-235 |
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Upa-gupta and the Arhant-cults |
236-252 |
12 |
Upa-gupta as Protector of Festivals |
253-272 |
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Personal Rewards and Domestic Rites |
273-290 |
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Praefatium |
xi-xiii |
p. xi religious libraries in Laos
"When Louis Finot undertook a survey of the libraries of Laotian monasteries in 1917, he discovered that ... Of the three divisions of the T{r}i{-}pit.aka, only the "basket of scholasticism" -- the Abhidhamma {Abhi-dharma} -- was complete, but that was because its seven books had important ritual uses at funeral other ceremonies. ... much of the Sutta {Sutra} pit.aka, purporting to record the words of the Buddha himself, was unknown, and ... its books existed only in the form of ... paritta, texts to be recited for their magical potency. ... The volumes of the Pali canon ... are generally not to be found in the bookcases of Buddhists in Southeast Asia. What is there is mostly "extracanonical" : |
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jataka[-]s, |
{these, however, being usually reckoned as part of the standard canon, but as the profoundly esoteric portion of that canon} |
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collections of legends from the commentaries, tales of the adventures of saints, accounts of other worlds {as experienced in dreams?}, |
{All these are likwise reckoned as esoteric -- as too valuable and too important to be made readily available in the ordinary, exoteric canon.} |
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anisamsa[-]s (stories extolling the advantages of merit[-]making), ritual manuals ... ." (Finot 1917, pp. 61-174) |
Finot 1917 = Louis Finot : "Recherches sur la litte'rature laotienne". BULLETIN DE L'ECOLE FRANC,AIS D'EXTRE^ME ORIENT 17:1-218.
p. xii former praedominance of Hina-yana denominations
"of all the many and diverse Hinayana sects that once thrived {throve} in South and Southeast Asia (Sarvastivadin[-]s, Mahasamghika[-]s, etc.), only the Theravadin[-]s exist today." |
{In China and in Indonesia, the Hina-yana denominations transformed themselves into Maha-yana denominations (which latter set of denominations distinguish themselves from each other each other largely by making use of distinctive -and-different Vaipulya-sutra-s.} |
{Each of the northern (in Han/China) and southern (in Nusantara/Indonesia) religious denominations evolved its own Vaipulya-sutra. In the central region, however, among others there existed (after being transferred thither at the close of the Gupta dynasty in Bharata, much as the Renaissance of Western Europe rose from the transferr thither of Hellenic culture/litterature after the close of the Byzantine empire) the Gupta denomination (venerating Upa-gupta), whence was artificially derived, by reactionarily eliminating most of its litterature and rites (in like manner as Protestant Christianity spuriously arose from Catholicism/Orthodoxy as a result of barbaricly eliminating most litterature and most rites of apostolic antiquity) the praesent-day deviation misleadingly calling itself Sthaviravada/Theravada (which is no more derived from the antique Elders than is Protestantism from the Apostoloi).}
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Abbreviations |
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pp. xv-xviii abbreviations of names of canonical books and their commentaries
p. |
abbrev. |
its signification |
xv |
A. |
Ang-uttara Nikaya |
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AA. |
Manoratha {Manas-ratha} Puran.i (commentary on the A.) |
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Avk. |
Avadana-kalpalata |
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Avs`. |
Avadana-s`ataka |
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Buv. |
BuddhaVamsa {Buddha Vams`a 'Awakened Reed/Dynasty'} |
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BuvA. |
MadhuratthaVilasini (commentary on the Buv.) |
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D. |
Di{r}gha Nikaya |
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DA. |
Su-mangala ('Good-Omen') Vilasini (commentary on the D.) |
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Dat.h. |
Dat.haVamsa |
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Div. |
Divyavadana {Divya Avadana} |
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Dpv. |
Dipavamsa {Dipa-vams`a 'Lamp Reed/Dynasty'} |
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Dhp. |
Dhammapada {Dharma-pad 'Law-Foot'} |
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DhA. |
DhammapadAt.t.ha-katha {'8-Tales'} (commentary on the Dhp.) |
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Itv. |
Itivuttaka {Iti-vr.ttaka} |
xvi |
J. |
Jataka |
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JM. |
Jataka-mala |
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Kvu. |
Katha {'Tale'} Vatthu |
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KvuA. |
KathaVatthuPpakaran.a At.t.ha-katha (commentary on the Kvu.) |
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Laks.c. |
Laks.a-caitya-samutpatti |
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Lal. |
Lalita-vistara |
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M. |
Majjhima {Madhyama 'Middle[-length]'} Nikaya |
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Mhv. |
MahaVamsa {Maha-Vams`a 'Great Reed/Dynasty'} |
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MhvT.. |
VamsaAtthaPpakasini (commentary on the Mhv.) |
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MJM. |
Mahajjatakamala |
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Mkv. |
Maha-karma[n] Vibhanga |
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MPS. |
Maha-parinirvan.a Sutra |
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MSV. |
Mula-sarva-asti-vada Vinaya |
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Mtu. |
Maha-vastu |
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PJat. |
Pa-n~n~asa {Prajn~a-asa 'Wisdom Seat'} Jataka |
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S. |
Samyutta {Sam-yukta} Nikaya |
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SA. |
SarAtthaPpakasini {Sara-artha Pra-kas`ini} (commentary on the S.) |
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Sas. |
Sasanavamsa {S`asana Vams`a} |
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Saunda. |
Saundara-nanda ('Beauty-Producing Joy') |
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Sn. |
Sutta {Sutra 'Warpthread'} Nipata |
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SnA. |
Param-attha {Parama-artha} Jotika II (commentary on the Sn.) |
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S`iks.. |
S`iks.asamuccuya |
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T. |
Taisho shinshu daizokyo |
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T. 125 |
Eka-uttara Agama |
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T. 130 |
Su-magadha Avadana |
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T. 190 |
Abhi-nis.-kraman.a Sutra |
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T. 200 |
Avadana S`ataka |
xvii |
T. 202 |
Dama-muka-nidana Sutra |
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T. 211 |
Dharma-pada Ava-dana |
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T. 213 |
Dharma-pada |
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T. 310 |
Maha-ratna-kut.a |
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T. 643 |
Buddha-anusmr.ti-samadhi Sutra |
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T. 1421 |
Mahis`asaka Vinaya |
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T. 1425 |
Mahasanghika Vinaya |
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T. 1428 |
Dharmaguptaka Vinaya |
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T. 1435 |
Sarva-asti-vada Vinaya |
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T. 1442 |
Mula-sarva-asti-vada Vinaya-vibhanga |
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T. 1451 |
Mula-sarva-asti-vada Vinaya-vastu |
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T. 1462 |
Mula-sarva-asti-vada Vinaya-ks.udra-vastu |
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T. 1465 |
S`ari-putra Pari-pr.ccha |
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T. 1545 |
Maha-vibhhas.a |
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T. 1634 |
Maha-yan Avatara |
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T. 1644 |
Loka-prajn~apti |
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T. 2030 |
Nandimitravadana {Nandi[n]-mitra Avadana} |
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Upasam. |
Upa-sampada Vidhi |
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Vin. |
Vi-naya Pit.aka-m |
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VinA. |
Sam-anta Pasadika (commentary on the Vin.) |
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VinNid. |
Vinaya Nidana |
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Vsm. |
Visuddhimagga {Vis`uddhi Marga} |
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John S. Strong : The Legend and Cult of Upagupta : Sanskrit Buddhism in North India and Southeast Asia. Princeton Univ Pr, 1992.