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142016 SE Systematic Buddhology in the Uttaratantrasastra (2025S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 14 - Orientalistik, Afrikanistik, Indologie und Tibetologie
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Mi 05.03. 14:00-15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18

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max. 36 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

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  • Mittwoch 19.03. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 26.03. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 02.04. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 09.04. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 30.04. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 07.05. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 14.05. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 21.05. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 28.05. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 04.06. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
  • Mittwoch 11.06. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18
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  • Mittwoch 25.06. 14:00 - 15:30 Seminarraum 2 ISTB UniCampus Hof 2 2B-O1-18

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

The Indian Uttaratantra (Tib. rGyu bla ma), otherwise known as the Ratnagotravibhāga, is among the most studied treatises in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The text was likely composed in India in the late fourth or early fifth century, and is often a focus of study for its first and longest chapter, which presents a systematic account of teachings about 'buddha-nature' present in all sentient beings. However, the remaining chapters of the Uttaratantra reflect further on the no less important topic of 'buddhology' in general: that is, the nature of buddhas and their relationship to the world.
In this course we will look at the second chapter of the text, concerned with 'awakening' (bodhi) and the characterization of buddhahood. This will entail close engagement with detailed exposition of Mahāyāna Buddhist thought, at the end of the 'classical' era of Indian religion, concerning what constitutes a buddha in nature, knowledge, and deed.
We will read passages of the Sanskrit text (primarily the edition of E.H. Johnston, supplemented by amendments made by other scholars), with references also to the Tibetan translation of the treatise. We will also make reference to the Chinese version of the Uttaratantra (the Baoxing lun 寶性論, Taishō no.1611: produced in the early sixth century), our earliest witness to any version of the text, though no prior knowledge of Chinese is required for the course.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Assessment will be based primarily on attendance and participation in class, together with weekly preparation (Sanskrit/Tibetan translation). At the end of the course, some passages of translation produced in class will be assessed.

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Knowledge of Sanskrit and Tibetan is required. However, it is fine for knowledge of one language to be significantly stronger than the other: weekly preparation can focus on either the Sanskrit or Tibetan versions of the text.

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

The Sanskrit edition used for our reading is that of E.H. Johnston:
* Johnston, E. H., ed., 1991 [1950]. “The Ratnagotravibhāga Mahāyānottaratantra-śāstra,” in H. S. Prasad, ed., The Uttaratantra of Maitreya, Bibliotheca Indo-Buddhica Series No. 79. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications.
This will be supplemented by the canonical Tibetan version. Passages for translation will be supplied before each class, after the first week.

For electronic access to the Sanskrit:
1) https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.326624/mode/2up
2)
https://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil/corpustei/transformations/html/sa_ratnagotravibhAga.htm
A synoptic version of the Sanskrit and Tibetan (also Chinese) is available here:
https://www2.hf.uio.no/polyglotta/index.php?page=fulltext&view=fulltext&vid=1125&mid=0

The still definitive study of the text is this:
* Takasaki Jikidō 高崎直道, 1966. A Study on the Ratnagotravibhāga (Uttaratantra), Being a Treatise on the Tathāgatagarbha Theory of Mahāyāna Buddhism. Rome: Serie Orientale Roma.

For consideration also are amendments proposed in these works:
* de Jong, Jan Willem, 1968. Review of Takasaki (1966), Indo-Iranian Journal 11, 36-54.
* Schmithausen, Lambert, 1971. "Philologische Bemerkungen zum Ratnagotravibhāga," Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde Südasiens: 15, 123–177.

Further relevant works (of which there are very many) include these:
* Jones, Christopher V., 2021. The Buddhist Self: On Tathāgatagarbha and Ātman. Honolulu: University of Hawai‵i Press [relevant chapters].
* Kano Kazuo 加納和雄, 2016. Buddha-Nature and Emptiness: rNgog Blo-ldan-shes-rab and A Transmission of the Ratnagotravibhāga from India to Tibet, Wiener Studien zur Tibetologie und Buddhismuskunde 91, Wien: Arbeitskreis für Tibetische und Buddhistische Studien.
* Mathes, Klaus-Dieter, 2015[2017]. "The Original Ratnagotravibhāga and Its Yogācāra Interpretation as Possible Indian Precedents of Gzhan stong ('Empti[ness] of Other')," Hōrin: Vergleichende Studien zur japanischen Kultur 18, 119–140.
* Ruegg, David Seyfort, 1976. "The Meanings of the Term Gotra and the Textual History of the Ratnagotravibhāga," Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 39/2, 341-363.
* Wangchuk, Tsering, 2018. The Uttaratantra in the Land of Snows: Tibetan Thinkers Debate the Centrality of the Buddha-Nature Treatise, Albany: SUNY Press.

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Letzte Änderung: Do 23.01.2025 14:45