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  1. The Play of Formulas in the Early Buddhist Discourses.Eviatar Shulman - 2022 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 50 (4):557-580.
    The _play of formulas_ is a new theory designed to explain the manner in which discourses (Suttas, Sūtras) were composed in the early Buddhist tradition, focusing at present mainly on the _Dīgha-_ and _Majjhima- Nikāyas_ (the collections of the Buddha’s Long and Middle-length discourses). This theory combats the commonly accepted views that texts are mainly an attempt to record and preserve the Buddha’s teachings and life events, and that the best way to understand their history is to compare parallel versions (...)
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  • The Senses of Performance and the Performance of the Senses: The Case of the Dharmabhāṇaka’s Body.Natalie Gummer - 2022 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 50 (4):619-647.
    In the “Chapter on the Benefits to the Performer of the Dharma” in the Saddharmapuṇḍarīka, the Buddha proclaims the many remarkable transformations that will take place in the six sense faculties of the performer of the dharma. An analysis of this chapter clarifies both the sūtra’s normative vision for the performance of the dharmabhāṇaka who announces his sensory enhancements and the nature of the bodily transformations that the sūtra promises to enact upon him as a consequence of his performance. This (...)
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  • Floating Words and the Aesthetics of the Visual Vernacular: Political Culture in Contemporary India.Sadan Jha - 2022 - Journal of Human Values 28 (2):143-160.
    Journal of Human Values, Volume 28, Issue 2, Page 143-160, May 2022. Recent decades have witnessed an unprecedented amount of conflict around visual representations in India. The field of the visual is the new terrain for rumour mongering and for maiming uncomfortable oppositional voices. With the fast-spreading mobile culture, penetrating social media and continued legacy of the pictorial as an embodiment of the real, the visual has taken over both the oral as well as the written words in its usefulness (...)
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