2026-09-05 Newman 该文(JIABS 21.2, 1998, pp. 311–371 全帙,另附该期目次一面;书内 面加 309)。①「蔑戾车」所指:书内第 317 页,mleccha 本「denotes any foreigner who does not follow Indian customs, but the Kālacakra texts seem to apply it only to Muslims」,同页注 11 更直白:「With a few exceptions, one could accurately gloss mleccha as ‘Muslim’ throughout the Kālacakra literature」;
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时轮诸本并指其族属为 Tāyin(藏译 stag gzig),即大食。②末法战争叙事:书内第 330 页,迦尔吉王之战「will dismay the barbarians, thus establishing them in his own Dharma. He will eradicate their dharma, not kill them (1.15)」。③语境:书内第 314 页指 Yaśas 与 Puṇḍarīka 皆是托名,「an elaborate mythology devised to provide the newly created Kālacakra tantra with a suitable Buddhist pedigree」,时在十一世纪初;文末系于伽色尼的马茂德侵印,正与正文所置的年代相合。旁得:Newman 强调此战是两读的——外则为世界末劫的预言,内则为修道的譬喻,「the war on the mlecchas serves as an allegory for the personal transformation that is the main subject of the tantra」,蔑戾车之军喻嗔恚嫉贪,迦尔吉喻乐空之智,故称「internal Buddhist jihad」。这一层于第八篇第二章「应对是叙事化的,不是组织化的」一判尤其有用:连那场战争本身,在教内的正解里也是内向的。