Alt Und Neu Undische Studien

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"Liberating Insight" and "Enlightenment" in Early Buddhism
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points palpable enough in Harivarman's text?", is usually not made. This means that, from the point of view of content, the positive and the "negative" tradition came to be fused (the accent, it is true, varying from system to system). With regard to its formal aspect, however, the Mahāyāna descriptions or theories of Liberating Insight, as far as I can see, refer to a clearly mystical experience, which resembles samjnavedayitanirodha or nirodhasamāpatti in its aspect of a mysticoexistential anticipatory realization of Nirvana, though it is usually212 clearly distinguished from it, probably because nirodhasamāpatti had come to be regarded as a completely non-conscious (or at least subconscious) state, whilst mystical experience is, of course, consciousness, though, in Mahāyāna, a transconceptual one.
*Abbreviations:
(Abbreviations of titles of Pali texts not listed below correspond to those of the CPD!)
AK(Bh) = Abhidharmakósa (bhāsya) of Vasubandhu, ed. P. Pradhan, Patna 1967. AKP = L'Abhidharmakósa de Vasubandhu, trad. et ann. par L. de la Vallée Poussin, Paris-Lou
vain 1923-1931. AKVy = Abhidharmakośavyakhyā of Yaśomitra, ed. U. Wogihara, Tokyo ? 1971. AN = Anguttaranikāya (PTS ed.). AS = Abhidharma samuccaya of Asanga, ed. P. Pradhan, Santiniketan 1950 ASBH = Abhidharmasamuccayabhāsya, ed. N. Tatia, Patna 1976. BAREAU, Recherches = A. Bareau, Recherches sur la biographie du Buddha dans les Sutra
pitaka et les Vinayapitaka anciens: de la quête de l'Eveil à la conversion de Sāriputra et de
Maudgalyāyana. Paris 1963. BHSD = F. Edgerton, Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary, New Haven 1953. CPD = V. Trenckner et al., A Critical Pali Dictionary, Copenhagen 1924-. DHCPS = Dharmacakrapravartanasūtra (see ch. B). DN - Dighanikaya (PTS ed.). EĀCEkottaragama (T 125). EB = G. P. Malalasekera et al., Encyclopedia of Buddhism, Colombo 1961. ERGARDT, Faith = Jan T. Ergardt, Faith and Knowledge in Early Buddhism, Leiden 1977. FRAUWALLNER, A.St. = E. Frauwallner, Abhidharma-Studien, in: WZKS(O) 7/1963 (= 1);
8/1964 (= II); 15/1971, 69-102 (= III); 15/1971, 103-121 and 16/1972 (= IV); 17/1973
(= V). FRAUWALLNER, G.I.Ph. = E. Frauwallner, Geschichte der indischen Philosophie, I, Salzburg
1953. FRAUWALLNER, Ph.B. = E. Frauwallner, Die Philosophie des Buddhismus, Berlin 1969. HACKER, KL. Schr. - Paul Hacker, Kleine Schriften, ed. by L. Schmithausen, Wiesbaden 1978. Hôb = Hôbôgirin, dictionnaire encyclopédique du Bouddhisme, Tokyo 1929IBK - Indogaku Bukkyōgaku Kenkyu (Journal of Indian and Buddhist Studies). MAC = Madhyamagama (T 26). MN = Majjhimanikaya (PTS ed.) MPPUL = E. Lamotte, Le Traité de la grande vertu de sagesse, tome I-IV, Louvain 1944-1976.
211 Cp., e.g., TSi 362 b 2. But cp. also passages like TSi 370 5 28 f. and c 10 ff., or 365 c 1 f.,
where the distinction seems doubtful. 212 An exception seems to be Kāśyapaparivarta (ed. Staël-Holstein) § 144; cp. Mus. p. 222.