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Considerations on the Inappropriateness of the "Transcendence" Paradigm to the Hermeneuticso fB uddhist Scriptures "No more: inquireinto their descent [that of To-Be and Being in their difference, H.-J.R.]thereby [working]o nt he dead end track; but: let difference and transcendenceg o " . 1 It is ac ommon and everydaye xperience that Western, or occidental, readerso f Indic, Chinese, or Tibetan Buddhist scriptures read understandingsi nto words, phrases, longer passages, or entire works which have as their sources not the words as they stand, but ac onfidence, at rust,a ni ntellectual impression, some suggestive memory,o rs implya ni rresistible forceo fh abit to sticking to one'so wn customary tracks of thoughtt hat make it seem justified to transfer the words in the texts into vocabularies and semantics that are characteristic landmarkso fW estern, or occidental, traditions of speakinga nd thinking.2 In contrast to that,itis, at least to my experience,more rare that readers withstand this temptation, discipline themselves, hold their own interventions back as strictlya st hey can and keep track with what musicians nowadays call an "historically"-and, we should add: aphilological

Author
Hermann-Josef Röllicke
Publisher
de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9783110698343

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