Language and Meaning
Cho, Eun-Su
The nature of the Buddha's speech, buddhavacana, has been discussed by Buddhist thinkers from soon after the Buddha's lifetime. In modern Buddhist scholarship it seems natural to focus on the textual record of the Buddha's teachings, but overemphasizing that aspect risks losing sight of the potency of the Buddha's speech to effect liberation. Comparing Abhidharma and Chinese Buddhist conceptions of the Buddha's word, Eun-su Cho's study address...