dc.contributor.advisor | Cohen, Signe | eng |
dc.contributor.author | Miller, Adam Tyler | eng |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | eng |
dc.date.submitted | 2013 Spring | eng |
dc.description | Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on September 11, 2013). | eng |
dc.description | The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. | eng |
dc.description | Includes bibliographical references. | eng |
dc.description | M.A. University of Missouri--Columbia 2013. | eng |
dc.description | Dissertations, Academic -- University of Missouri--Columbia -- Religious studies. | eng |
dc.description | "May 2013." | eng |
dc.description.abstract | The present work is a translation and analysis of a particular variant of the second chapter of the Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī Sūtra, entitled "Pūrvayogaparivarta,” the provenance of which can be traced to Vikramādityanandi, the second king of the Paṭola Ṣāhi Dynasty, who ruled the kingdom of Bolōr around the turn of the seventh century CE. Using the analytical category of myth theorized in terms of ideology, I argue not only that this variant of “Pūrvayogaparivarta” constructs and naturalizes a worldview in which kingship and buddhahood are intricately interwoven, but also that Vikramādityanandi commissioned the Ratnaketu Dhāraṇī Sūtra to be copied in order to legitimate his rule over Bolōr and to dissolve the distinctions between himself and buddhas. This thesis is a contribution to the discipline of Buddhist Studies, as well as the wider field of Religious Studies' it is not simply a translation, but an analysis of the text in its historical context framed in terms of a particular understanding of myth. Previous scholarship has treated myths variously--sometimes as false stories produced by inferior minds, sometimes as stories about the original creative activity of nonobvious beings, sometimes as an abstract entity underlying the stories of a culture. In distinction to these approaches, I read “Pūrvayogaparivarta” as a rhetorical device used to achieve practical, political aims. | eng |
dc.format.extent | iv, 90 pages | eng |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10355/37974 | |
dc.language | English | eng |
dc.publisher | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
dc.relation.ispartofcommunity | University of Missouri--Columbia. Graduate School. Theses and Dissertations | eng |
dc.source | Submitted by the University of Missouri--Columbia Graduate School | eng |
dc.subject | mythology | eng |
dc.subject | ideology | eng |
dc.subject | political aims | eng |
dc.subject | political legitimation | eng |
dc.title | The Buddha said that Buddha said so: a translation and analysis of "Purvayogaparivarta" from the Ratnaketu dharani sutra | eng |
dc.type | Thesis | eng |
thesis.degree.discipline | Religious studies (MU) | eng |
thesis.degree.grantor | University of Missouri--Columbia | eng |
thesis.degree.level | Masters | eng |
thesis.degree.name | M.A. | eng |