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- Religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, and Jainism have used oral tradition, in parallel to writing, to transmit their canonical scriptures, rituals, hymns and mythologies. Sub-Saharan African societies have broadly been labelled as oral civilisations, contrasted with literate civilisations, due to their reverence for the spoken over the written word.
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Sep 13, 2010 · The Indian world in which Buddhism arose was an oral world. The general scholarly consensus is that writing was not used in India until the Mauryan period sometime in the 3rd century BCE and that it was not used to record Buddhist texts until the 1st century BCE, when the Pali canon was written down for the first time in Sri Lanka.
Two theories have been proposed to explain the oral transmission of early Buddhist literature. Some scholars have argued that the early literature was not rigidly fixed because it was improvised in recitation, whereas others have claimed that word for word accuracy was required when it was recited.
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Religions such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Catholicism, [7] and Jainism have used oral tradition, in parallel to writing, to transmit their canonical scriptures, rituals, hymns and mythologies. [8][9][10] Sub-Saharan African societies have broadly been labelled as oral civilisations, contrasted with literate civilisations, due to their reverence for ...
Public group chanting for devotional and ceremonial is common to all Buddhist traditions and goes back to ancient India where chanting aided in the memorization of the orally transmitted teachings. [420] Rosaries called malas are used in all Buddhist traditions to count repeated chanting of common formulas or mantras.
Jan 1, 2017 · Oral Transmission in Early Buddhism. In the absence of the use of writing for maintaining a textual tradition, the early Buddhists relied on oral means of transmission for passing on to posterity the discourses that had been delivered by the Buddha and his disciples.
- Bhikkhu Anālayo
Buddhism is a tradition that focuses on personal spiritual development. The Buddha-dharma is simply a starting point; concepts that if practiced and applied will bring peace, acceptance and freedom from pain.
The Brahmajāla and the Early Buddhist Oral Tradition. Bhikkhu Anālayo. See Full PDF. Download PDF. The Prajñāpāramitā (‘Perfection of Wisdom’) sūtras are a large corpus of Mahāyāna Buddhist texts composed and redacted within the Indian subcontinent for over a thousand year period.
