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4. An Unshakeable Awareness: Siddhas and Jīvanmukti According to the Mokṣopāya


 
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1. Title Title of document 4. An Unshakeable Awareness: Siddhas and Jīvanmukti According to the Mokṣopāya - Teaching Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Bruno Lo Turco; La Sapienza University of Roma; Italy
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Buddhist Studies
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) jīvanmukta; Mokṣopāya; Bhāskarakaṇṭha; siddha; Buddhist Tantrism; dohās
 
5. Subject Subject classification Buddhist Studies
 
6. Description Abstract This study returns to the question of the jīvanmukta (“liberated while still living”) in the Mokṣopāya, a Hindu work heavily influenced by Buddhism and composed around the 9th century CE, in order to add some details that have been neglected to date. In particular, the chapter 6.259 along with Bhāskarakaṇṭha’s commentary (Ṭīkā) has been edited and translated here for the first time. This chapter shows that the figure of the jīvanmukta in the Mokṣopāya is comparable to the figure of the siddha (“perfect”) of the dohās (vernacular poems belonging to Buddhist Tantrism). Thus, he lives fully an ordinary life — he can even belong to a low social class —, or even a very peculiar life, for example “in the sky”, always without flaunting his achievements. At the same time he never abandons the supreme kind of awareness: “the perceivable exists only through one’s own perception”. This supports the hypothesis, put forward in the recent past, that the Mokṣopāya itself originated from the preaching of a siddha-like figure.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 30-Jan-2024
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/44243
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.44243
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; Teaching Awareness in the Buddhist Tradition
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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