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uddhists everywhere "take refuge" in the "Three Jewels"-that is, the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Saṅgha. And students of Buddhism everywhere have wondered exactly what this might mean. What is it to take shelter in and seek protection from jewels? In what way are the Buddha, the Dhamma, and the Saṅgha jewels? And how did this formulation become central to Buddhist understandings of what it is to be Buddhist? In this chapter, I take up how the Theravāda commentarial tradition understood this complex of ideas by focusing on its treatment of the well-known and often recited Jewel Sutta. The Jewel Sutta (Ratana Sutta) is a short sutta of seventeen stanzas that occurs in two anthologies in the Pali canon's "Miscellaneous Collection" (Khuddaka Nikāya): the Suttanipāta and the Khuddakapāṭha. It is much more widely circulated, however, in the later noncanonical collections of "protective texts" (paritta) in which it always appears, such as the Catubhāṇāvarapāli and its Sinhala version (the Maha Pirit Pota or Pirit Pota in Sri Lanka) and similar collections in Burma, Thailand, and Laos. 1 In these collections, paritta suttas like the Jewel Sutta are chanted regularly in ritual ceremonies, m

Author

Maria Heim

Publisher

University of Hawaii Press

Published

2021

Language

EN