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32. Homer, The Odyssey, trans. Robert Fagles (New York: Penguin Books,
1996), p. 233.
33. For an extended discussion of the mnemonic technologies of oral
cultures, see David C. Rubin, Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive
Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-out Rhymes (New York and Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 1995).
34. Edward Conze, trans., The Large Sutra on Perfect Wisdom, with the
Divisions of the Abhisamayālaṃkāra (Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press, 1975), p. 144.
35. A. C. Graham seems to have taken a similar approach to the comparison
of Chinese and Western thought. Rather than “building a contrastive
framework between China and the West on the purported distinctiveness
of correlative thinking, Graham pointed instead to the relative weight that
each philosophical tradition placed on correlative and analytic thinking.
China embraced correlativity; the West ultimately divorced analytic
thinking from correlative thinking and came to value analytic thinking
more highly” (Michael J. Puett, To Become a God: Cosmology, Sacrifice, and
Self-Divinization in Early China [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2002], p. 16).
36. Donald, p. 308.
37. Ibid., p. 269.
38. William A. Graham, Beyond the Written Word: Oral Aspects of Scripture
in the History of Religion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987),
p. 12.
39. See for a similar consideration of the impact of technology Ong’s
discussion of orchestral technology. Ong, Orality and Literacy, pp. 80–82.
40. Daniel Veidlinger, “When a Word Is Worth a Thousand Pictures:
Mahāyāna Influence on Theravāda Attitudes towards Writing,” Numen:
International Review for the History of Religions 53, no. 4 (2006): p. 406.
For additional discussion of place of orality and literacy in Theravāda
culture, see idem., Spreading the Dhamma: Writing, Orality, and Textual
Transmission in Buddhist Northern Thailand (Honolulu: University of
Hawai‘i Press, 2006).
41. Idem., “When a Word,” p. 406.
42. http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/dn/dn.15.0.than.html, accessed
Thursday, March 1, 2007.
43. Rolf Giebel, trans., The Vairocanābhisaṃbodhi Sūtra, BDK English
Tripiṭaka, 30–I (Berkeley, CA: Numata Center for Buddhist Translation
and Research, 2005), p. 3.
44. Like most philosophic terminology, nominalism has a variety of