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Dao companion to Chinese Buddhist philosophy
Title:
Dao companion to Chinese Buddhist philosophy

Companion to Chinese Buddhist philosophy

Chinese Buddhist philosophy

Dao companions to Chinese philosophy ;
Author:
Wawrytko, Sandra A. (Sandra Ann), editor.
ISBN:
9789048129386
Physical Description:
xv, 440 pages ; 24 cm
Series:
Dao companions to Chinese philosophy ; volume 9

Dao companions to Chinese philosophy ; 9.
Contents:
Chinese Buddhist Philosophy and its "other" / Intersections : assimilating and appopriating Buddhism. -- The sinification of Buddhist philosophy : the cases of Zhi Dun and The Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna (Dasheng Qixin Lun) / The ethics of generosity in Chinese Mahayana Buddhism : theory and practice / Wholesome rememberance and the critique of memory -- from Indian Buddhist context to Chinese Chan appropriation / Intersections : interacting with indigenous traditions. -- The Daoist-Buddhist discourse(s) on things, names, and knowing in China's Wei Jin period / The epistemology and process of Buddhist nondualism : the philosophical challenge of egalitarianism in Chinese Buddhism / Chines Buddhism and Confucianism : from Zongmi to Mou Zongsan / Schools, thinkers, ideas and texts : the Sanlun School. -- The nonduality of motion and rest : Sengzhao on the change of things / Po : Jizang's negations in the four levels of the twofold truth / Schools, thinkers, ideas and texts : The Faxiang School. -- In what sense Jñeyāvaraṇa is a Mahāyāna idea? according to Xuanzang's Vijñānavādan in the Cheng Weishi Lun / How to attain enlightenment through cognition of particulars and universals? Huizhao on Svalakṣaṇa and Sāmānyalakṣaṇa / Schools, thinkers, ideas, and texts : the Tiantai School. -- Dynamics of practice and understanding -- Chinese Tiantai philosophy of contemplation and deconstruction / Schools, thinkers, ideas, and texts : the Huayan School. The metaphysics of identity in Fazang's Huayan Wujiao Zhang : the inexhaustible freedome of dependent origination / Temporality and non-temporality in Li Tongxuan's Huayan Buddhism / Schools, thinkers, ideas, and texts : the Chan School. Redefining enlightenment experience : a philosophical interpretation of the Dunhuang Version Platform Sutra / Philosophical interpretations of Hongzhou Chan Buddhist thought / Character is the way : the path to spiritual freedom in the Linji Lu / Schools, thinkers, ideas, and texts : the Jingtu Thought. -- Pure land and the environmental movement in humanistic Buddhism
Abstract:
Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different cultural norms and aims. After several generations of scholarly discussion in English-speaking communities, it is time to move to the next hermeneutical stage. Buddhist philosophy must be liberated from the confines of a quasi-religious stereotype and judged on its own merits. Hence this work will approach Chinese Buddhism as a philosophical tradition in its own right, not as an historical after-thought nor as an occasion for comparative discussions that assume the west alone sets the standards for or is the origin of philosophy and its methodologies. Viewed within their own context, Chinese Buddhist philosophers have much to contribute to a wide range of philosophical concerns, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of religion, even though Western divisions of philosophy may not exhaust the rich contents of Chinese Buddhist Philosophy -- back cover.
Bibliographical References:
Includes bibliographical references.
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