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Relief-fragment van Mara in stijl van Gandhara, gevonden in vallei van Swat
De demonen van mara. Palm leaf manuscript. Nalanda, Bihar, India
Mara's assault on the Buddha (an aniconic representation: the Buddha is only symbolized by his throne), 2nd century, Amaravati, India
Bestand:Mara demon nat and Buddha.JPG
Burmese wall painting in Malaysia representing Mara attempting to tempt Buddha
Mara, his lusty daughters, and demonic army, attempting to tempt Buddha, on a 10th-century icon from Mogao Caves

Mara (Sanskriet: मार, Māra; Sinhala: මාරයා; Chinees: 天魔; pinyin: Tiānmó of traditioneel Chinees: 魔羅; vereenvoudigd Chinees: 魔罗; pinyin: Móluó; Japanes: 魔羅, romanized: Mara; ook マーラ, Māra of 天魔, Tenma; Tibetaans Wylie: bdud; Khmer: មារ; Thais: มาร), in Boeddhisme, is de demonische grootheid die prins Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) probeerde te verleiden met visies van mooie vrouwen van wie in diverse legendes beweerd wordt dat zij dochters van Mara zijn.[1]

In de spirituele wereld van het Boeddhisme wordt Mara geassocieerd met dood, wedergeboorte en verlangen.[2] Nyanaponika Thera beschreef Mara als "de verpersoonlijking van de krachten die de verlichting actief tegenwerken."[3]

Etymologie

The word Māra comes from the Sanskrit form of the verbal root mṛ. It takes a present indicative form mṛyate and a causative form mārayati (with strengthening of the root vowel from ṛ to ār). Māra is a verbal noun from the causative root and means 'causing death' or 'killing'.[4] It is related to other words for death from the same root, such as: maraṇa and mṛtyu. The latter is a name for death personified and is sometimes identified with Yama.

The root mṛ is related to the Indo-European verbal root *mer meaning "die, disappear" in the context of "death, murder or destruction". It is "very wide-spread" in Indo-European languages suggesting it to be of great antiquity, according to Mallory and Adams.[5]

Four types of Māra

In traditional Buddhism, four or five metaphorical forms of Māra are given:[6]

  • Kleśa-māra - Māra as the embodiment of all unskillful emotions, such as greed, hate and delusion.
  • Mṛtyu-māra - Māra as death.
  • Skandha-māra - Māra as metaphor for the entirety of conditioned existence.
  • Devaputra-māra - the deva of the sensuous realm, who tried to prevent Gautama Buddha from attaining liberation from the cycle of rebirth on the night of the Buddha’s enlightenment.

Character

Early Buddhism acknowledged both a literal and psychological interpretation of Mara.[7][8]

Mara is described both as an entity having an existence in Kāma-world,[9] just as are shown existing around the Buddha, and also is described in pratītyasamutpāda as, primarily, the guardian of passion and the catalyst for lust, hesitation and fear that obstructs meditation among Buddhists. The Denkōroku refers to him as the "One Who Delights in Destruction", which highlights his nature as a deity among the Parinirmitavaśavarti devas.[10]

"Buddha defying Mara" is a common pose of Buddha sculptures.[11][12] The Buddha is shown with his left hand in his lap, palm facing upwards and his right hand on his right knee. The fingers of his right hand touch the earth, to call the earth as his witness for defying Mara and achieving enlightenment. This posture is also referred to as the bhūmisparśa "earth-witness" mudra.

Three daughters

In some accounts of the Buddha's enlightenment, it is said that the demon Māra didn't send his three daughters to tempt but instead they came willingly after Māra's setback in his endeavor to eliminate the Buddha's quest for enlightenment.[13] Mara's three daughters are identified as Sjabloon:IAST (Thirst), Arati (Aversion, Discontentment), and Rāga (Attachment, Desire, Greed, Passion).[12][14] For example, in the Samyutta Nikaya's Māra-saSjabloon:IASTyutta, Mara's three daughters were stripping in front of Buddha; but failed to entice the Buddha:

They had come to him glittering with beauty –
Taṇhā, Arati, and Rāga –
But the Teacher swept them away right there
As the wind, a fallen cotton tuft.[15]

Some stories refer to the existence of Five Daughters, who represent not only the Three Poisons of Attraction, Aversion, and Delusion, but also include the daughters Pride, and Fear.Sjabloon:Citation needed

Mara's conversion

The Jingde Record of the Transmission of the Lamp and the Denkoroku both contain a story of Mara's conversion to Buddhism under the auspices of the monk Upagupta.

According to the story, Upagupta journeyed to the kingdom of Mathura and preached the Dharma with great success. This caused Mara's palace to tremble, prompting the deity to use his destructive powers against the Dharma. When Upagupta entered samadhi, Mara approached him and slipped a jade necklace around his neck.

Upagupta reciprocated by transforming the corpses of a man, a dog, and a snake into a garland and gifted it to Mara. When Mara discovered the true nature of the gift, he sought the help of Brahma to remove it. Brahma informed him that because the necklace was bestowed by an advanced disciple of the Buddha, its effects could only be assuaged by taking refuge in Upagupta.

Mara returned to the human world where he prostrated before the monk and repented. At Upagupta's recommendation, he vowed never to do harm to the Dharma and took refuge in the Three Jewels.[16]

The former source includes a gatha that Mara recited when his suffering was lifted:

Adoration to the Master of the three samādhis,
To the sage disciple of the ten powers.
Today I wish to turn to him
Without countenancing the existence
Of any meanness or weakness.[17]

Mara has been prominently featured in the Megami Tensei video game series as a demon. Within the series, Mara is portrayed as a large, phallic creature, often shown riding a golden chariot. His phallic body and innuendo-laden speech are based on a pun surrounding the word mara, a Japonic word for "penis" that is attested as early as 938 CE in the Wamyō Ruijushō, a Japanese dictionary of Chinese characters. According to the Sanseido dictionary, the word was originally used as a euphemism for "penis" among Buddhist monks, which references sensual lust as an obstacle to enlightenment.[18]

Mara appears in Roger Zelazny's novel Lord of Light as a god of illusion.[19]

In 2020, the singer-songwriter Jack Garratt released a song entitled "Mara". Inspired by the story of Mara’s distraction of the Buddha, "Mara" describes Garratt's experience of intrusive thoughts.[20]

Mara is the antagonist in the ride Indiana Jones Adventure at Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea. He attempts to kill all of those who look into his eyes.

Mara appears as both a snakelike creature and an inner demonic force which possesses and controls people through their desires and fears in the Doctor Who episodes "Kinda" (1982) and "Snakedance" (1983).

In the series Girl from Nowhere, the main protagonist “Nanno” is revealed in an episode “trophy” that her real name is “Mara Amaratayakul”.

In the japanese game Fate/Grand Order, Mara and Kama, the God of Love, appearing as a syncretic deity, are an antagonist and possess the body of a girl together in spite of them having a male mind.

In the manga Record of Ragnarok Mara appears under the name "Hajun" who fights the Buddha.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Zie, bij voorbeeld, Samyutta Nikaya 4.25, getiteld, "Māra's dochters" (Bodhi, 2000, pp. 217–20), als ook Suttanipata 835 (Saddhatissa, 1998, pagina 98). In beide teksten worden Mara's dochters (Māradhītā) gepersonifieerd door sensueel Verlangen (taṇhā), Afkeer (arati) en Passie (rāga).
  2. ↑ Trainor, Kevin (2004). Buddhism: The Illustrated Guide. Oxford University Press, p. 34. ISBN 9780195173987.
  3. ↑ Thera, Nyanaponika (2008). The Roots of Good and Evil: Buddhist Texts translated from the Pali with Comments and Introduction. Buddhist Publication Society, p. 22. ISBN 9789552403163.
  4. ↑ Olson, Carl (2005). The Different Paths of Buddhism: A Narrative-Historical Introduction. Rutgers University Press, 28. ISBN 9780813537788.
  5. ↑ Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Taylor & Francis (1997), 150–153. ISBN 978-1-884964-98-5.
  6. ↑ Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism.. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (2013), 530–531, 550, 829. ISBN 9780691157863.
  7. ↑ Williams, Paul (2005). Buddhism: The early Buddhist schools and doctrinal history ; Theravāda doctrine, Volume 2. Taylor & Francis, 105–106. ISBN 9780415332286.
  8. ↑ Keown, Damien (2009). Buddhism. Sterling Publishing Company, p. 69. ISBN 9781402768835.
  9. ↑ www.wisdomlib.org, Mara, Māra: 13 definitions. www.wisdomlib.org.
  10. ↑ The Denkōroku: The Record of the Transmission of the Light. OBC Shasta Abbey Press (2003). Geraadpleegd op 6 december 2019.
  11. ↑ Vogel, Jean Philippe, Barnouw, Adriaan Jacob (1936). Buddhist Art in India, Ceylon, and Java. Asian Educational Services, 70–71.
  12. ↑ a b The Buddha's Encounters with Mara the Tempter: Their Representation in Literature and Art. www.accesstoinsight.org.
  13. ↑ Keown, Damien (2004). A Dictionary of Buddhism. Oxford University Press, p. 174. ISBN 9780191579172.
  14. ↑ See, e.g., SN 4.25 (Bodhi, 2000, pp. 217–20), and Sn 835 (Saddhatissa, 1998, p. 98). In a similar fashion, in Sn 436 (Saddhatissa, 1998, p. 48), Sjabloon:IAST is personified as one of Death's four armies (senā) along with desire (kāmā), aversion (arati) and hunger-thirst (khuppipāsā).
  15. ↑ SN 4.25, v. 518 (Bodhi, 2000, p. 220).
  16. ↑ The Denkōroku: The Record of the Transmission of the Light. OBC Shasta Abbey Press (2003). Geraadpleegd op 6 december 2019.
  17. ↑ Daoyuan, Whitfield, Randolph S. (translator) (2015). Record of the Transmission of the Lamp: Volume One. BoD – Books on Demand. ISBN 9783738662467.
  18. ↑ 摩羅(まら)とは - Weblio辞書. www.weblio.jp.
  19. ↑ Lord of Light Summary. Shmoop. Geraadpleegd op August 18, 2019.
  20. ↑ Mara Inspiration. ladygunn. Geraadpleegd op 5 april 2020.

Sources

  • Bodhi, Bhikkhu (trans.) (2000). The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. Boston: Wisdom Pubs. ISBN 0-86171-331-1.
  • Saddhatissa, H. (translator) (1998). The Sutta-Nipāta. London: RoutledgeCurzon Press. ISBN 0-7007-0181-8.

Further reading

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