Mythical Asura and Historical Asura
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- Tomita Masahiro
- 日本大学
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- Other Title
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- 神話上のアスラと史実のアスラ
- シンワ ジョウ ノ アスラ ト シジツ ノ アスラ
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Abstract
<p>The usage of the word Asura differs depending on whether people in the past took Asura as good or evil beings. In my Ph. D. thesis, I threw light on the historical usage of the word Asura in the Vedas, Nikāyas, and early Mahāyāna sūtras, literature created before the dawn of the Common Era. I also investigated the difference between Asura in myths and human Asura, as the usage of the word Asura was applied to each group. Additionally, I found that Asura were written about not only as human beings in some situations but also as spirits in others. In a former study, I examined sūtras but did not examine Vinayas or later sources. Therefore now I use the Mahāvastu and the Datang Xiyu ji大唐西域記,a travelogue of Xuanzang玄奘,and the Datang daci’ensi sanzang fashi zhuan大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師伝,a biography of Xuanzang, and I examine the influence of the historical human Asura on the rise in mythical Asura of scriptures from various viewpoints.</p>
Journal
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- Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu)
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Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies (Indogaku Bukkyogaku Kenkyu) 69 (1), 461-456, 2020-12-25
Japanese Association of Indian and Buddhist Studies
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390570777737707136
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- NII Article ID
- 130008085054
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- NII Book ID
- AN00018579
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- ISSN
- 18840051
- 00194344
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- NDL BIB ID
- 031231686
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- Text Lang
- ja
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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