Altar of Words: Text and Ritual in Taittiriya Upanisad 2

作者：Freedman Yitzhak^*

来源：Diagnostic Pathology, 2010, 5: 322-343.

DOI：10.1163/156852712X641778

• text
• Upanisads
• Taittiriya Upanisad
• Agnicayana
• internalization
• verbalization

The following study examines the nature and purport of the Upanisadic text, focusing on the second chapter of the Taittiriya Upanisad. This chapter exhibits structural aspects that parallel those of the brick altar constructed during the Vedic ritual of agnicayana, "piling of the fire-altar." An analysis of the chapter in light of the interpretations of this ritual in the Brahman.as leads to a new understanding of the text. Rather than being primarily a revelation of doctrine, the text is a manual for a variant, verbalized form of the "piling of the fire-altar." The verbalized agnicayana includes a ritual construction of the self (atman) as an altar, created not by bricks, but by the words of the Upanisadic text.

• 出版日期2010-4-9