1. Oneself as Another: Yantraputraka Metaphors in Buddhist Literature.
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Zhao, You
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DHARMA in Buddhism , *AGENT (Philosophy) , *METAPHOR , *LITERATURE , *SPEECH , *BUDDHISTS - Abstract
While Buddhist teachings deny the presence of a stable, unchanging self, they must still make sense of human agency. In this article, I look through metaphors of mechanical men in Buddhist literature, which inform us of attempts to tackle the problem by resorting to figurative speech. With a selection of examples, we shall see not only a basic rationale of these metaphors, as well as the dynamics of their usage in Buddhist texts against different doctrinal backgrounds, but also their meta-philosophical role in penetrating through the agent-oriented "universe of discourse". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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