Authors and Editors in the Literary Traditions of Asian Buddhism
Time and again in modern studies of traditional Buddhist literature, we find the unreflective use of words like ‘author.’ Such words are a natural part of our modern lexicon, and at first glance seem to be implied by Buddhist literary conventions too, for example in colophons or catalogues. Little w...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Journal article |
| Published: |
International Association of Buddhist Studies
2015
|
| _version_ | 1797093563656306688 |
|---|---|
| author | Cantwell, C Mayer, R |
| author_facet | Cantwell, C Mayer, R |
| author_sort | Cantwell, C |
| collection | OXFORD |
| description | Time and again in modern studies of traditional Buddhist literature, we find the unreflective use of words like ‘author.’ Such words are a natural part of our modern lexicon, and at first glance seem to be implied by Buddhist literary conventions too, for example in colophons or catalogues. Little wonder that we use them so freely. We happily say so-and-so ‘wrote’ a meditation manual, ‘composed’ a commentary, or ‘revealed’ a scripture. Yet on reflection, this is a potentially hazardous way to talk about Buddhist literature, because Buddhist notions of literary production can differ so markedly from the presuppositions of such terms in popular modern usage. We convened this conference because we felt it was high time these differences were more systematically investigated. |
| first_indexed | 2024-03-07T04:02:18Z |
| format | Journal article |
| id | oxford-uuid:c4fec898-44f3-4a78-bcb5-af4120e4f304 |
| institution | University of Oxford |
| last_indexed | 2024-03-07T04:02:18Z |
| publishDate | 2015 |
| publisher | International Association of Buddhist Studies |
| record_format | dspace |
| spelling | oxford-uuid:c4fec898-44f3-4a78-bcb5-af4120e4f3042022-03-27T06:27:46ZAuthors and Editors in the Literary Traditions of Asian BuddhismJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:c4fec898-44f3-4a78-bcb5-af4120e4f304Symplectic Elements at OxfordInternational Association of Buddhist Studies2015Cantwell, CMayer, RTime and again in modern studies of traditional Buddhist literature, we find the unreflective use of words like ‘author.’ Such words are a natural part of our modern lexicon, and at first glance seem to be implied by Buddhist literary conventions too, for example in colophons or catalogues. Little wonder that we use them so freely. We happily say so-and-so ‘wrote’ a meditation manual, ‘composed’ a commentary, or ‘revealed’ a scripture. Yet on reflection, this is a potentially hazardous way to talk about Buddhist literature, because Buddhist notions of literary production can differ so markedly from the presuppositions of such terms in popular modern usage. We convened this conference because we felt it was high time these differences were more systematically investigated. |
| spellingShingle | Cantwell, C Mayer, R Authors and Editors in the Literary Traditions of Asian Buddhism |
| title | Authors and Editors in the Literary Traditions of Asian Buddhism |
| title_full | Authors and Editors in the Literary Traditions of Asian Buddhism |
| title_fullStr | Authors and Editors in the Literary Traditions of Asian Buddhism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Authors and Editors in the Literary Traditions of Asian Buddhism |
| title_short | Authors and Editors in the Literary Traditions of Asian Buddhism |
| title_sort | authors and editors in the literary traditions of asian buddhism |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT cantwellc authorsandeditorsintheliterarytraditionsofasianbuddhism AT mayerr authorsandeditorsintheliterarytraditionsofasianbuddhism |