[Buddha-l] question

[jkirk]

Richard, thanks a bunch of spring lupines. I'm almost off for 6 days but
will check when I get back. Actually I was not really looking for a Buddhist
term, but more one from classical rhetoric, disguised in order to ask folks
on the list--apologies for badness.
Aristotle's poetics might have it--I just can't find my old copy but then
maybe I no longer have it either. I needed it for a paper I'm proposing for
the annual ACSAA symp. next Oct--I never went to one and it's about
time.....and the matter of my paper would have to do with my research
unrelated to Buddhism----alas. Maybe some day I will make it to Sri Lanka
and get to review all the temple murals (vernacular art) to see what's what
there. But then, at my age one tends to have the constant presence of
thoughts of limited time ahead.

Old age = disorganization. The link sounds like a good possibility.
Best, Joanna
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Nance" <richard.nance at gmail.com>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] question


> On Apr 5, 2005 12:21 AM, jkirk <jkirk at spro.net> wrote:
> > Hard to believe that there is nobody on this list who knows
> > anything about rhetoric! What the heck.........
>
> Joanna -- if you 're looking for information regarding a rhetorical
> move that Indian authors might have *self-consciously made*, then
> you're asking about something that might be formulated somewhere in
> the formidable discourse of ala.mkaara'saastra. The person to talk to
> in this regard on the BUDDHA-L list is Tim Cahill; I'm not sure
> whether he's still around, but perhaps he'll see your note and get
> back to you.
>
> I can't recall any explicit thematization in Indian Buddhist sources
> of the rhetorical move you mention -- the closest thing to it is
> probably a move discussed in the Abhidharmasamuccayabhaa.sya and
> Vyaakhyaayukti under the rubric of the "transformation of syllables"
> (ak.sarapari.naama). But this really isn't as specific as what you're
> looking for -- and there's no unanimity among authors about what it
> involves.
>
> If you're not concerned about whether the rhetorical term is
> "indigenous," you might find the following link to be of some help:
>
> http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm
>
> Best,
>
> R. Nance
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