Buddhist Hermeneutics and East Asian Buddhist Interpreters
Title | Buddhist Hermeneutics and East Asian Buddhist Interpreters PDF eBook |
Author | Sumi Lee |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 2022-12-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1527591905 |
This book explores the hermeneutic question of how non-conceptual religious reality is conceptually interpreted in the Buddhist tradition. While interpreters of religion have to perform their task through the process of conceptualization of their subjects, religious reality is typically considered as transcending conceptual categorization. Noting this dilemmatic problem, this work discusses the issues involved in Buddhist hermeneutics. It consists of two parts, the first of which discusses possibilities and problems associated with Buddhist hermeneutics, through three different topics: two exegetic strategies of the Indian Buddhist tradition, interpretive problems in the realistic approach to Buddhism, and historicist interpretations of Buddhism in modern times. The second part examines particular interpretive approaches to reality in East Asian Buddhism, such as the Chinese meditative practice of kanhua Chan, the Korean scholar-monk Wŏnhyo’s (617–686) view on non-duality of buddha-nature, and the Japanese monk Kūkai’s (774–835) perspective on emptiness. By addressing these issues, this volume illuminates the fundamental hermeneutic challenge in Buddhism: how to deliver dharma of no dharma.
Buddhist Hermeneutics
Title | Buddhist Hermeneutics PDF eBook |
Author | Donald S. Lopez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Buddhism |
ISBN |
Religious Epistemology through Schillebeeckx and Tibetan Buddhism
Title | Religious Epistemology through Schillebeeckx and Tibetan Buddhism PDF eBook |
Author | Jason M. VonWachenfeldt |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2021-02-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567698645 |
This study investigates how a comparison between the Catholic theologian Edward Schillebeeckx's controversial reading of Thomist philosophy and the Tibetan Buddhist Gendun Chopel's challenge to the standard Geluk teaching of Tsongkhapa's Madhyamaka philosophy might assist in rethinking conceptions of religious knowledge. Utilizing a wide variety of methodical approaches to establish an imaginary dialogue between these two thinkers, this comparison remains embodied in the thought and praxis of actual individuals, and yet still firmly embedded within the conversations and trajectories of their broader religious traditions.
The Bible and Asia
Title | The Bible and Asia PDF eBook |
Author | R. S. Sugirtharajah |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 254 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0674728092 |
Though the Bible is a product of West Asia, its influence on Europe and the Americas has received far more attention than its complex career in the East. R. S. Sugirtharajah corrects this imbalance with an expansive new study of Asia's subversive and idiosyncratic relationship with the Bible. This is the story of missionaries, imperialists, exegetes, reformers, and nationalists who molded Biblical texts according to their own needs in order to influence religion, politics, and daily life from India to China. When the Bible reached east and south Asia in the third century CE, its Christian scriptures already bore traces of Asian commodities and Indian moral stories. In China, the Bible merged with the teachings of Buddha and Lao Tzu to produce the Jesus Sutras. As he recounts the history of how Christianity was influenced by other Asian religions, Sugirtharajah deftly highlights the controversial issue of Buddhist and Vedic influence on Biblical religion. Once used to justify European rule in Asia, the Bible has also served to promote the spiritual salvation of women, outcasts, and untouchables. The Bible has left a literary mark on Asia in two ways: through its influence on Asian writers and through the reinvigoration of modern Asian vernaculars when proselytizing missionaries introduced Western print culture to the East.
Buddhist Hermeneutics
Title | Buddhist Hermeneutics PDF eBook |
Author | Donald S. Lopez |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 1992-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780824814472 |
Transmitters and Creators
Title | Transmitters and Creators PDF eBook |
Author | John Makeham |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 483 |
Release | 2020-03-23 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1684173906 |
"The Analects (Lunyu) is one of the most influential texts in human history. As a putative record of Confucius’s (551–479 B.C.E.) teachings and a foundational text in scriptural Confucianism, this classic was instrumental in shaping intellectual traditions in China and East Asia until the early twentieth century. But no premodern reader read only the text of the Analects itself. Rather, the Analects was embedded in a web of interpretation that mediated its meaning. Modern interpreters of the Analects only rarely acknowledge this legacy of two thousand years of commentaries. How well do we understand prominent or key commentaries from this tradition? How often do we read such commentaries as we might read the text on which they comment? Many commentaries do more than simply comment on a text. Not only do they shape the reading of the text, but passages of text serve as pretexts for the commentator to develop and expound his own body of thought. This book attempts to redress our neglect of commentaries by analyzing four key works dating from the late second century to the mid-nineteenth century (a period substantially contemporaneous with the rise and decline of scriptural Confucianism): the commentaries of He Yan (ca. 190–249); Huang Kan (488–545); Zhu Xi (1130–1200); and Liu Baonan (1791–1855) and Liu Gongmian (1821–1880)."
The Journal of Asian Studies
Title | The Journal of Asian Studies PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Asia |
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