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The Buddha's skill in means and the genesis of the five aggregate teaching winner of the 2nd professor Mary Boyce award

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2010-04-01

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Article

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14740591
13561863

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10.1017/S1356186309990496

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2-s2.0-77951734882

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Mahidol University

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol.20, No.2 (2010), 191-216

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Alexander Wynne The Buddha's skill in means and the genesis of the five aggregate teaching winner of the 2nd professor Mary Boyce award. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. Vol.20, No.2 (2010), 191-216. doi:10.1017/S1356186309990496 Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/28565

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The Buddha's skill in means and the genesis of the five aggregate teaching winner of the 2nd professor Mary Boyce award

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Alexander Wynne

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Mahidol University

Abstract

The problem tackled in this article is ambitious. Through examination of how certain fundamental teachings of the Buddha originated - the author argues that those teachings must indeed go back to the Buddha himself. Thus the author builds a chain of argument which creates hypothetical links rather than declaring a priori that links and connection cannot be established. This article argues that the Alagaddpama Sutta, an important early Buddhist text, portrays the Buddha in the process of formulating his thoughts. If so it contradicts the myth that the Buddha awakened to the entire Buddhist Dharma on one occasion, and should be dated to the fourth century bce. Such an antiquity, and peculiar didactic structure suggests that the text contains authentic teachings of the Buddha. © 2010 The Royal Asiatic Society.

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