Early Buddhist Oral Tradition by Analayo Bhikkhu
Author:Analayo Bhikkhu
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
10.SUMMARY
The dynamics of orality are such that even the employment of abbreviation, whose pervasive occurrence in the early texts was quite probably motivated by attempts to facilitate their transmission, can in the course of time acquire a creative function. The same holds for lists, which from being simply a means to structure an oral presentation can evolve and take on a life of their own, by way of intruding in various contexts and thereby leading to textual expansions.
Another important factor with comparable repercussions appears to have been the providing of a commentary alongside a particular teaching. Due to the challenges of keeping a clear dividing line between these two types of prose text in an oral setting, combined with the problem of accurate source monitoring as a feature of human memory, major innovations may have had their humble beginnings as a commentary during oral teaching that eventually made it into the texts themselves.
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