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Author: Eviatar Shulman

Table of Contents:

• Part I. The Literary Approach to the Early Discourses
• 1. Introduction: Rereading the Udumbarika-sutta
• A First Textual Analysis: Why the Udumbarika-sutta?
• The Formulaic Opening of the Mahāsakuludāyi-sutta as a Literary Preamble to the Udumbarika
• The Opening of the Pāli Udumbarika-sutta
• The Philosophy of the Udumbarika
• Versions of the Udumbarika-sutta
• Conclusion
• 2. Literary Design in the Early Discourses
• Multivalence in the Majjhima Nikāya: A Reading of the Cūlataṇhāsankhaya-sutta
• The Art of Narrative in the Sīla-kkhandha-vagga I: The Brahmajāla
• The Art of Narrative in the Sīla-kkhandha-vagga II: The Sāmaññaphala
• Applying and Reapplying the SKV Formula
• What Is Editing?
• Conclusion: The Art of Interpretation in the Nikāyas
• Part II. Inner and Outer Worlds of Literary Expression
• 3. Mindfulness of the Buddha in the Mahāparinibbāna-sutta
• Reading and Listening to the Mahāparinibbāna-sutta (MPS)
• The Climax: The Buddha Relinquishes His Life
• Nearing the Buddha’s Death
• Death and Its Aftermath
• Epilogue: Ānanda’s Visualization of the Buddha before Enlightenment
• 4. The Folklore of Sutta: Performance in the Early Discourses, and Texts as Versions
• Buddhist Fun in the Pāṭika-sutta
• The Pāṭika as a Version
• A Doctrinal Version
• The Buddha’s Perplexing Austerities in the Mahāsīhanāda
• Bring in the Jātakas
• The Closing Section of the Pāṭika
• Conclusion
• Part III. Composing Buddhist Scripture through the Play of Formulas
• 5. The Play of Formulas: Toward a Theory of Composition for the Early Discourses
• The Perils of Historicism in Buddhist Studies
• Literary Solutions to Historicist Fallacies
• The Primacy of the Formula
• An Alternative Approach
• The Play of Formulas and the Unanswered Questions
• Playing with Formulas on Brahmin-Householders
• Conclusion: Buddhist Orality Revisited
• 6. Retelling the Buddha’s Enlightenment in the Majjhima Nikāya
• Awakening in the Bhayabherava-sutta (“The Discourse on Fear and Dread,” MN 4)
• The Dvedhāvitakka-sutta (“The Discourse on Two Types of Thoughts,” MN 19)
• The Ariyapariyesanā-sutta (“The Discourse on the Noble Search,” MN 26)
• The Mahāsaccaka-sutta (“The Greater Discourse with Saccaka,” MN 36)
• The Bodhirājakumāra-sutta (“The Discourse to Prince Bodhi,” MN 85)
• The Saṅgārava-sutta (“The Discourse to Saṅgārava,” MN 100)
• Conclusion
• 7. Conclusion: The Play of Formulas and Meditative Practice

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