Geya
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geya (P. geyya; T. dbyangs kyis bsnyad pa sde / dbyangs bsnyad; C. qiye; J. giya; K. kiya 衹夜).[1] Literally “that which is to be chanted.”[2] Translated as "verse narrations," "proclamation in song," "hymns and praises," "melodic verses," etc.[2][3]
Geya 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:
- These verses are sometimes written in the traditional Sanskrit śloka form, with four lines of eight syllables apiece. The geya genre is closely related to gāthā, religious verse, but may in some cases be distinguished by being the verse reiteration of a preceding prose narrative or by sometimes having verse interspersed with prose narration.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. geya.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2
དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་བསྙད་པ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
- ↑ དབྱངས་ཀྱིས་བསྙད་པའི་སྡེ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University
