Maestri, testi e fonti d’Oriente

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The book series, sponsored by the Department of Asian and North African Studies, aims to enhance theoretical and practical research across the main area studies of the Department. The series focuses on texts and sources which are often neglected and don’t find adequate recognition even in scholarly publications, running the risk of being lost once and for all. These are primarily oral/audio, visual, and documentary materials. The series is thought of as a repository of original, primary sources which for their rarity and originality deserve to be adequately preserved and made available to the scholarly community. “Masters, Texts, and Sources” must therefore be understood in the broadest sense, i.e. as an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural enterprise, intersecting the fields of linguistics, philology, literature, history, sociology, anthropology, and the arts.

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  • Extraordinary Capacities in the Buddhist Path of Liberation
  • A Diachronic Study Based on the Theravāda Sources
  • Bryan De Notariis
  • 25 Marzo 2026

  • This volume presents a diachronic study of the final stages of the Buddhist path of liberation as presented in the Sāmaññaphalasutta (D 2). Focusing on ‘extraordinary capacities’ - the ‘body made of mind’ (manomayakāya), the capability to perform many kinds of psychophysical power (iddhividhā̆), and the higher knowledges (abhiññā) - the work deciphers their significance within the soteriological journey. By collecting evidence from the Pāli canon, the Vedic corpus, and later Pāli exegesis, the research traces the evolution of these meditative powers. This rigorous analysis of Pāli literature reveals how the Theravāda tradition re-envisioned human potential and refined its doctrinal framework over time. It offers a vital contribution to our understanding of the historical and philological development of Buddhist thought.