Buddhist Hermeneutics And East Asian Buddhist Interpreters

Author : Sumi Lee
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 115 pages
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Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781527591905

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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.

Author : Donald S. Lopez
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 316 pages
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Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0824814479

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Author : Mario Poceski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3897334259

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Communities of Memory and Interpretation by Mario Poceski Pdf

Author : Alice Collett
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438482958

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Translating Buddhism by Alice Collett Pdf

Although many Buddhist studies scholars spend a great deal of their time involved in acts of translation, to date not much has been published that examines the key questions, problems, and difficulties faced by translators of South Asian Buddhist texts and epigraphs. Translating Buddhism seeks to address this omission. The essays collected here represent a burgeoning attempt to begin to shape the subfield of translation studies within Buddhist studies, whereby scholars actively challenge primary routine decisions and basic assumptions. Exploring questions including how interpretive translators can be and how cultural and social norms affect translations, the book draws on the broad experiences of its contributors—all of whom are translators themselves—who bring different themes to the table. Each chapter can be used either independently or as part of the whole to engender reflections on the process of translation.

Author : Donald S. Lopez
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8120808401

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Buddhist Hermeneutics by Donald S. Lopez Pdf

Author : Robert H. Sharf
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 417 pages
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Release : 2005-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824861940

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Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism by Robert H. Sharf Pdf

The issue of sinification—the manner and extent to which Buddhism and Chinese culture were transformed through their mutual encounter and dialogue—has dominated the study of Chinese Buddhism for much of the past century. Robert Sharf opens this important and far-reaching book by raising a host of historical and hermeneutical problems with the encounter paradigm and the master narrative on which it is based. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism is, among other things, an extended reflection on the theoretical foundations and conceptual categories that undergird the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism. Sharf draws his argument in part from a meticulous historical, philological, and philosophical analysis of the Treasure Store Treatise (Pao-tsang lun), an eighth-century Buddho-Taoist work apocryphally attributed to the fifth-century master Seng-chao (374–414). In the process of coming to terms with this recondite text, Sharf ventures into all manner of subjects bearing on our understanding of medieval Chinese Buddhism, from the evolution of T’ang "gentry Taoism" to the pivotal role of image veneration and the problematic status of Chinese Tantra. The volume includes a complete annotated translation of the Treasure Store Treatise, accompanied by the detailed exegesis of dozens of key terms and concepts.

Author : Lewis Hodous,William E. Soothill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-18
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781135791230

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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by Lewis Hodous,William E. Soothill Pdf

This invaluable interpretive tool, first published in 1937, is now available for the first time in a paperback edition specially aimed at students of Chinese Buddhism. Those who have endeavoured to read Chinese texts apart from the apprehension of a Sanskrit background have generally made a fallacious interpretation, for the Buddhist canon is basically translation, or analogous to translation. In consequence, a large number of terms existing are employed approximately to connote imported ideas, as the various Chinese translators understood those ideas. Various translators invented different terms; and, even when the same term was finally adopted, its connotation varied, sometimes widely, from the Chinese term of phrase as normally used by the Chinese. For instance, klésa undoubtedly has a meaning in Sanskrit similar to that of, i.e. affliction, distress, trouble. In Buddhism affliction (or, as it may be understood from Chinese, the afflicters, distressers, troublers) means passions and illusions; and consequently fan-nao in Buddhist phraseology has acquired this technical connotation of the passions and illusions. Many terms of a similar character are noted in the body of this work. Consequent partly on this use of ordinary terms, even a well-educated Chinese without a knowledge of the technical equivalents finds himself unable to understand their implications.

Author : William M. Bodiford
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824851774

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Going Forth by William M. Bodiford Pdf

In its role as a scriptural charter, vinaya has justified widely dissimilar approaches to religious life as Buddhist orders in different times and places have interpreted it in contradictory ways. In the resulting tension between scripture and practice, certain kinds of ceremonial issues (such as those involving lineage, seniority, initiation, purification, repentance, visualization, vows, ordination) acquire profound social, psychological, doctrinal, and soteriological significance in Buddhism. Going Forth focuses on these issues over a wide sweep of history—from early fifth-century China to modern Japan—to provide readers with a rich overview of the intersection of doctrinal, ritual, and institutional concerns in the development of East Asian Buddhist practices. Despite the crucial importance of vinaya, especially for understanding Buddhism in East Asia, very little scholarship in Western languages exists on this fascinating topic. The essays presented here, written by senior scholars in the field, go beyond the timeworn method of relying on prescriptive accounts in the scriptures to describe what imaginary Buddhists must have done (or do). Rather, they address how actual people responded to local social and cultural imperatives by reading scripture in innovative ways to give new life to tradition. They place real people, practices, and institutions at the center of each account, revealing both diversity and unity, continuity and transformation, in Buddhist customs. The result is a well-integrated, accessible work—relevant for Buddhist studies, but with wider implications for anyone interested in East Asian cultural heritage. Contributors: T. H. Barrett, William Bodiford, David W. Chappell, James C. Dobbins, Daniel A. Getz, Paul Groner, John R. McRae, Morten Schlütter, Nobuyoshi Yamabe, Yifa.

Author : Tsung-mi
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824817648

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Inquiry Into the Origin of Humanity by Tsung-mi Pdf

¿A superb book ... one clearly designed for practical use.¿ ¿Buddhist Studies Review 14 (1997) ¿Gregory¿s work serves as a model for future scholars wishing to present translations of key East Asian Buddhist texts to a broader audience.¿ ¿Philosophy East and West 48 (1998) ¿Ein wertvoller Beitrag als vollstSndige ¿bersetzung, als Erkenntnisquelle Yber den chinesischen Buddhismus fYr Interessierte und als Lehrmaterial fYr diejenigen, die ihn lehren mYssen.¿ ¿Monumenta Serica 45 (1997) ¿Peter Gregory¿s is a name that I as a layman (vis-a-vis academia) am always happy to see attached to a text as I feel confident that the work will be of genuine interest and that my understanding will be limited only by my knowledge, rather than by my ability to penetrate a forest of jargon, obscure theorizing and convoluted writing.¿ ¿Buddhism Now, November 1996 ¿Gregory¿s translation is a truly remarkable accomplishment reflecting his superb command of literary Chinese and his thorough familiarity with the relevant scholarly literature on Chinese thought in Western languages.¿ ¿Stanley Weinstein, professor of Buddhist Studies, Yale University

Author : Mario Poceski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781118610350

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The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism by Mario Poceski Pdf

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to East and Inner Asian Buddhism combines outstanding contributions covering Buddhism as it developed and is practiced in this region. These newly-commissioned essays provide fresh scholarly perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, and practices. Offers a comprehensive and balanced survey of Buddhism within East and Central Asia, from the time of the Buddha through to the present day Provides fresh perspectives on a wide range of concepts, texts, traditions, doctrines, practices, and institutions – on topics spanning gender roles, tantric rituals, and the spread of Zen into Europe Brings together cutting-edge research by an interdisciplinary and international contributor team, including historians, literature scholars, and historians, as well as those from religious studies Presents a panoramic view of the extraordinary richness and variety of local Buddhist expressions and practices within Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and Tibetan, cultures

Author : Eun-Su Cho
Publisher : Contemporary Issues in Buddhis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1886439818

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Language and Meaning by Eun-Su Cho Pdf

The nature of the Buddha's speech, buddhavacana, has been discussed by Buddhist thinkers from soon after the Buddha's lifetime. In modern Buddhist scholarship it seems natural to focus on the textual record of the Buddha's teachings, but overemphasizing that aspect risks losing sight of the potency of the Buddha's speech to effect liberation. Comparing Abhidharma and Chinese Buddhist conceptions of the Buddha's word, Eun-su Cho's study addresses the transmission and reinterpretation of theories of language and opens a doorway to Buddhist philosophical thought in East Asia. This is particularly important because technical Buddhist philosophical thought in East Asia has long been neglected, and has become overshadowed by academic and popular attention to Tibetan Buddhist philosophical thought. In contrast to the perception of greater legitimacy accorded to Tibetan thought through its association with Indian Buddhism, the doctrinally dense works of East Asian Buddhism have not been the object of equally intense study, yet such works exist and continue to deserve greater attention. Cho's Language and Meaning offers an important pathway into these discourses.

Author : Galen Amstutz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791433102

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Interpreting Amida by Galen Amstutz Pdf

Examines the history of Japanese Pure Land Buddhism and how orientalist assumptions have caused the West to ignore this important tradition.

Author : Jason M. VonWachenfeldt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567698643

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Religious Epistemology through Schillebeeckx and Tibetan Buddhism by Jason M. VonWachenfeldt Pdf

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.

Author : Robert M. Gimello,Peter N. Gregory
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0824808355

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Studies in Ch'an and Hua-Yen by Robert M. Gimello,Peter N. Gregory Pdf

¿Contains well-researched and specialized studies in the history of these two important East Asian Buddhist traditions.... It presents some of the best work of younger scholars who are making available to the English-speaking world the fruits of Japanese scholarship and building upon them.¿ ¿Religious Studies Review

Author : William Edward Soothill,Lewis Hodous
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0700703551

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A Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms by William Edward Soothill,Lewis Hodous Pdf

This invaluable interpretive tool, first published in 1937, is now available for the first time in a paperback edition specially aimed at students of Chinese Buddhism. Those who have endeavoured to read Chinese texts apart from the apprehension of a Sanskrit background have generally made a fallacious interpretation, for the Buddhist canon is basically translation, or analogous to translation. In consequence, a large number of terms existing are employed approximately to connote imported ideas, as the various Chinese translators understood those ideas. Various translators invented different terms; and, even when the same term was finally adopted, its connotation varied, sometimes widely, from the Chinese term of phrase as normally used by the Chinese. For instance, klésa undoubtedly has a meaning in Sanskrit similar to that of, i.e. affliction, distress, trouble. In Buddhism affliction (or, as it may be understood from Chinese, the afflicters, distressers, troublers) means passions and illusions; and consequently fan-nao in Buddhist phraseology has acquired this technical connotation of the passions and illusions. Many terms of a similar character are noted in the body of this work. Consequent partly on this use of ordinary terms, even a well-educated Chinese without a knowledge of the technical equivalents finds himself unable to understand their implications.