How Did Chinese Buddhists Incorporate Indian Metaphors? A Study of Lushan Huiyuan’s Use of Firewood–Fire Metaphors in the Shadow of Indian Canons
In the discourse of Lushan Huiyuan 廬山慧遠, the firewood–fire metaphor (xinghuozhiyu 薪火之喻) is employed to illustrate personhood (shen 神), referring to pudgala. Scholars often criticize Huiyuan for interpreting personhood as a true “self” (ātman) under the influence of the Vātsīputrīya school, thus cont...
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MDPI
2024
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Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 8 |
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firewood–fire metaphor
B Āgamas B Vātsīputrīya school B personhood ( shen 神) B pudgala B Lushan Huiyuan 廬山慧遠 |
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