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| - | ''''' Otras inquisiciones 1937-1952''''' (1952) is a collection of essays and literary criticism by [[Jorge Luis Borges]]. Its English title is ''Other Inquisitions 1937-1952'' and was published in 1964. | + | The '''Milinda Pañha''' ("Questions of Milinda") is a [[Buddhist texts|Buddhist text]] which dates from approximately 100 BCE. It purports to record a dialogue between the Buddhist sage [[Nagasena|Nāgasena]], and the [[Indo-Greek Kingdom|Indo-Greek]] king [[Menander I]] ([[Pali]]: ''Milinda'') of [[Bactria]]<!-- or of [[Euthydemia]] ? -->, who reigned from [[Sagala]] (modern [[Sialkot]], [[Pakistan]]). |
| - | It includes essays on [[Blaise Pascal]], [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]], [[Francisco de Quevedo]], [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]], [[Oscar Wilde]] and [[Franz Kafka]]. The essays are oftentimes philosophical (lots of attention given to the [[problem of universals]]), largely non-fiction with an occasional sprinkling of [[fictitious]] asides. | + | ''Milinda Pañha'' is included in the [[Buddhism in Burma|Burmese]] edition of the [[Pāli Canon]] of [[Theravada]] [[Buddhism]] as part of the book of ''[[Khuddaka Nikaya]]''. An abridged version is included as part of Chinese [[Mahayana]] translations of the canon. The ''Milinda Pañha'' does not appear in the [[Buddhism in Thailand|Thai]] or [[Buddhism in Sri Lanka|Sri Lankan]] versions of the Pāli Canon, however. |
| - | ==Contents== | + | |
| - | Contents of the first edition: | + | |
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| - | *[[La muralla y los libros]], The Wall and the Books, on [[Qin Shi Huang]] | + | |
| - | *[[La esfera de Pascal]], Pascal’s Sphere | + | |
| - | *[[La flor de Coleridge]], The Flower of Coleridge | + | |
| - | *[[El sueño de Coleridge]], The Dream of Coleridge, on dreaming [[Kubla Khan]], mentions "[[A Chapter on Dreams]]" by Robert Louis Stevenson, mentions "[[Nominalist and Realist ]]" by Emerson | + | |
| - | *[[El tiempo y J. W. Dunne]], Time and J. W. Dunne, on [[J. W. Dunne]], mentions [[Gustav Spiller]] | + | |
| - | *[[La Creación y P. H. Gosse]], The Creation and P. H. Gosse, on [[P. H. Gosse]] | + | |
| - | *[[Las alarmas del doctor Américo Castro]], Dr. Americo Castro Is Alarmed, on [[Américo Castro]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nuestro pobre individualismo]], Our Poor Individualism | + | |
| - | *[[Quevedo]], Quevedo | + | |
| - | *[[Magias parciales del Quijote]], Partial Enchantments of the Quixote | + | |
| - | *Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, on [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]] | + | |
| - | **Mentions [[Wakefield (short story)|Wakefield]], [[Earth's Holocaust]] | + | |
| - | **"Man knows that there are in the soul tints more bewildering, more numberless, and more nameless than the colours of an autumn forest; . . . Yet he seriously believes that these things can every one of them, in all their tones and semi-tones, in all their blends and unions, be accurately represented by an arbitrary system of grunts and squeals. He believes that an ordinary civilized stockbroker can really produce out of his own inside noises which denote all the mysteries of memory and all the agonies of desire." --[[G. K. Chesterton in an essay on George Frederic Watts]][https://archive.org/stream/watts00chesuoft/watts00chesuoft_djvu.txt] | + | |
| - | *[[Valéry como símbolo]], Valery as a Symbol, on [[Paul Valéry]] and [[Walt Whitman]], mentions the [[Third man argument]] | + | |
| - | *[[El enigma de Edward Fitzgerald]], The Enigma of [[Edward FitzGerald (poet)|Edward FitzGerald]] | + | |
| - | *[[Sobre Oscar Wilde]], About [[Oscar Wilde]] | + | |
| - | *[[Sobre Chesterton]], on [[G. K. Chesterton]] | + | |
| - | *[[El primer Wells]], The First Wells, comparing [[H. G. Wells]] to [[Jules Verne]] | + | |
| - | *[[El "Biathanatos"]], The ''[[Biathanatos]]'', mentions [[Philipp Batz]] | + | |
| - | *[[Pascal]], Pascal | + | |
| - | *[[El idioma analítico de John Wilkins]], The Analytical Language of John Wilkins | + | |
| - | *[[Kafka y sus precursores]], Kafka and His Precursors | + | |
| - | *[[Del culto de los libros]], On the Cult of Books, on [[writing]] | + | |
| - | *[[El ruiseñor de Keats]], The Nightingale of Keats, "[[Ode to a Nightingale]]", referencing ''[[The World as Will and Representation]]'': | + | |
| - | :"Let us ask ourselves sincerely whether the swallow of this summer is a different one than the swallow of the first summer, and whether the miracle of bringing something forth from nothingness has really occurred millions of times between the two, to be mocked an equal number of times by absolute annihilation. Whoever hears me say that this cat playing here now is the same one that frolicked and romped in this place three hundred years ago may think of me what he will, but it is a stranger madness to imagine that he is fundamentally different." | + | |
| - | *[[El espejo de los enigmas]], The Mirror of the Enigmas, on [[Léon Bloy]] and Paul's dictum "videmus nunc ..." from [[1 Corinthians 13]] | + | |
| - | *[[Dos libros]], Two Books, on H. G. Wells' ''[[Guide to the New World]]'' (1941) and ... | + | |
| - | *[[Anotación al 23 de agosto de 1944]], A Comment on August 23, 1944, on the [[liberation of Paris]] | + | |
| - | *[[Sobre el "Vathek" de William Beckford]], About William Beckford’s ''[[Vathek]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Sobre "The Purple Land"]], About The Purple Land, ''[[The Purple Land]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[De alguien a nadie]], From Someone to Nobody, on the [[Elohim]] | + | |
| - | *[[Formas de una leyenda]], Forms of a Legend, on [[Buddha]] and [[buddhism]] | + | |
| - | *[[De las alegorías a las novelas]], From Allegories to Novels, on [[allegories]] and [[nominalism]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nota sobre (hacia) Bernard Shaw]], For Bernard Shaw, [[G. B. Shaw]], mentions [[Kurd Lasswitz]], mentions [[Johannes Scotus Erigena]]'s [[Nihil]] | + | |
| - | *[[Historia de los ecos de un nombre]], on [[I Am That I Am]] | + | |
| - | *[[El pudor de la historia]], The Modesty of History, mentions the [[Battle of Valmy]] | + | |
| - | *[[Nueva refutación del tiempo]], New Refutation of Time, mentions the ''[[Milinda Panha]]'' | + | |
| - | *[[Sobre los clásicos]], on [[classic literature]] | + | |
| - | *[[Epílogo]], Epilogue | + | |
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| - | ==See also== | + | |
| - | *[[Jorge Luis Borges bibliography ]] | + | |
| - | *[[Books about books]] | + | |
| + | The Milindapanha is also referred to as the ''Nāgasena-sutra''. | ||
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The Milinda Pañha ("Questions of Milinda") is a Buddhist text which dates from approximately 100 BCE. It purports to record a dialogue between the Buddhist sage Nāgasena, and the Indo-Greek king Menander I (Pali: Milinda) of Bactria, who reigned from Sagala (modern Sialkot, Pakistan).
Milinda Pañha is included in the Burmese edition of the Pāli Canon of Theravada Buddhism as part of the book of Khuddaka Nikaya. An abridged version is included as part of Chinese Mahayana translations of the canon. The Milinda Pañha does not appear in the Thai or Sri Lankan versions of the Pāli Canon, however.
The Milindapanha is also referred to as the Nāgasena-sutra.
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