Pūraṇa‐Kassapa

Japanese: プーラナ・カッサパ(英語表記)Pūraṇa‐Kassapa
Pūraṇa‐Kassapa
He was one of the free thinkers (known as the Six Heresies from the Buddhist perspective) of the 6th to 5th century BCE in ancient India, and preached a theory of negation of morality without metaphysics. His birth and death years are unknown. He was a contemporary of Shakyamuni and is said to have been born of slave origins. In Chinese translations of Buddhist scriptures, he is transliterated as Furankaśyapa. He believed that murder and theft are not evil deeds, and that giving alms and cultivating self-cultivation are not good deeds, and therefore there is no reward for either good or evil deeds. This conclusion is shared by several other free thinkers, but while they base their teachings on metaphysics, his theory is characterized by its lack of this aspect.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
古代インド,前6~前5世紀の自由思想家(仏教側からいう〈六師外道〉)の一人で,形而上学を伴わない道徳否定論を説いた。生没年不詳。釈迦と同時代の人で奴隷の出身とされる。漢訳仏典では不蘭迦葉(ふらんかしよう)と音訳される。彼は殺人や盗みなどをしても悪をしたことにはならず,布施や修養などをしても善をしたことにはならず,したがって善悪いずれの業の報いも存在しないとした。この結論は他の自由思想家の何人かと共通するが,それらが根拠として形而上学を説くのに対し,彼の説はその側面をもたないのが特徴となっている。

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