Gāthā
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gāthā (T. tshigs su bcad pa'i sde / tshigs su bcad pa; C. ji; J. ge; K. ke 偈). In Sanskrit and Pāli, “odes,” “verse,” "teachings in verse," "stanzas," etc.[1]
Gāthā is a traditional genre of Buddhist literature, where it is categorized as:[1][2]
- one of the nine categories of teachings within the Pali tradition, and
- one of the twelve categories of teachings in the Sanskrit tradition.
The Princeton Dictionary states:
- Gāthās are often written in quatrains of four lines of eight syllables apiece. The gāthā genre is closely related to geya, “verse narratives” or “verse interspersed with prose”; however, gāthā does not include the geya’s interspersed prose narration and is not necessarily the verse reiteration of a preceding prose narrative.[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
tshigs su bcad pa'i sde, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. gāthā.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
External links
Gatha (India), Wikipedia
