ANIMAL-CRIES AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION: AN APPRAISAL MAINLY BASED ON THE EARLY BUDDHIST TEACHINGS AND THEIR EXEGESES (80,00 руб.)

УДК 81.09:81′373.21 ANIMALCRIES AND BUDDHIST MEDITATION: AN APPRAISAL MAINLY BASED ON THE EARLY BUDDHIST TEACHINGS AND THEIR EXEGESES* Dr. Aruna K. Gamage Pali and Buddhist Studies, Department Faculty of Humanities University of Kelaniya Kelanya, Gampala, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, 11600 The aims of this paper are to examine and figure out the contribution of animal cries in order to acquire one’s spiritual progress through meditation. <...> In addition, the affinity between animal cries and seven basic musical notes in Hindustani music will also be examined. <...> Special attention will be paid to the canonical accounts where the Buddha emphasized the efficacy of flora and fauna, animal cries and music for one’s both secular and spiritual well-being. <...> Nonetheless, no substantial literary piece has yet been issued that pays adequate attention to the effectiveness of animal cries for one’s spiritual attainment as reflected in the Pali canon. <...> However, due to the extensiveness of the scope this study is limited to a few selected accounts of the Theragāthā in the Pali canon. <...> The Buddha, as we see in many accounts of the Pali canon, encourages his disciples who attained their ultimate liberation, i.e. nibbāna, to perform a tremendous service to the society and become ideal social beings. <...> However, as we are told by many substantial discourses of the Buddha, the common society is of a quantity of certain obstructive nature to acquire one’s final liberation. <...> However, very significantly, an adequate amount of Pali canonical evidence categorically speaks of the helpfulness of the animal cries for the person’s spiritual development. <...> Especially various animal cries such as the lion’s roar, elephant’s trumpet, tiger’s growl, crow’s caw, peacock’s scream etc. are highly striking in the forest. <...> Besides, Pali commentaries, as the most trustworthy hermeneutic source material for the Pali canon, provide a mass of elaborations to prove the aforementioned idea. <...> At the very beginning, Venerable Bhūta reveals his awareness of basic principles of Buddhism such as unsatisfactoriness, aging and perishable nature of all animate and inanimate phenomena. <...> Interestingly, the forth quatrain of every stanza runs as a fix statement as “tato ratiṃ paramataraṃ na vindati; no one can find <...>