The Protective Buddha: On the Cosmological Logic of Paritta.
Paritta — ritual chanting — is a central institution in Theravāda Buddhism, with deep roots in all historical forms of Buddhism in Asia. Nevertheless, no study provides a convincing framework for how the protective potency of the Buddha and his words is understood. Earlier strands of scholarship hig...
| Publicado en: | Numen: International Review for the History of Religions Vol. 66; no. 2/3; pp. 207 - 243 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2019
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