BHIKKHU BODHI The Discourse on
THE ALL-EMBRACING NET OF VIEWS
(Brahmajála Sutta)
The Brahmajála Sutta and its Commentarial Exegesis
Buddhist Publication Society, Kandy, 1978
náboženstvo, náboženstvá východné, buddhizmus, filozofia
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Kto je BHIKKHU BODI ?
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THE TRANSLATOR
Bhikkhu Bodhi (Jeffrey Block), is a Buddhist monk of American nationality. Born in New York City in 1944, he received a B.A. degree from Brooklyn College in 1966 and a doctorate in philosophy from Claremont Graduate School in 1972. Coining to Sri Lanka after completing his academic studies, he entered the Buddhist monastic order as a novice in 1972, and the following year received full ordination as a bhikkhu. He studied in Sri Lanka and India from 1972 to 1977, and now resides in the United States.
The Discourse on THE ALL-EMBRACING NET OF VIEWS (Brahmajála Sutta)
The Brahmajála Sutta is one of the most important discourses in the Páli Canon of Theraváda Buddhism. It appears as the very first discourse in the Suttapitaka, and its assignment to this position reflects the high esteem in which it was held by the ancient redactors of the Canon. But the Brahmajála is more than merely the first item in the collection of the Buddha's discourses. It is the gateway to the entire Dispensation (Sásana) itself, and its central message must be grasped to ensure a correct understanding of the doctrinal development to follow.
THE ALL-EMBRACING NET OF VIEWS The Brahmajála Sutta and its Commentarial Exegesis
The aim of the Buddha in expounding the Brahmajála Sutta is to elaborate a "net" of sixty-two cases capable of, catching all possible speculative views on the nature of the self and the world. The Discourse succinctly describes the situation cut of which each view arises, and then goes on to show the general conditional basis for man's speculative flights. It explains how man's speculative disposition holds him in bondage to the wheel of birth and death, and how by the development of insight he can cut through the chain of theories and opinions to arrive at the state of enlightened liberation.
The present work is an English translation of the Sutta and the exegetical literature that has built up around it, including its classical commentary and two sub-commentaries. It contains the first attempt at a large-scale translation from the sub-commentaries, a stratum of Buddhist literature rich in insights into the philosophical and psychological core of the Dhamma. Included as well are three digressional tracts from the exegetical literature, among them a long treatise on the Páramitás (Perfections) and the Bodhisattva ideal, which throws a valuable sidelight on a rarely known aspect of Theraváda Buddhism.
A lengthy introduction elucidates the key points of the discourse and explains the place of the Brahmajála in the overall structure of Buddhist thought.
