A Distant Mirror
Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism

A Distant Mirror
Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism

Autor/innen

Chen-kuo Lin (Hrsg.)
National Chengchi University
Victoria University

Schlagworte

logic, epistemology, Buddhist “schools”, Buddhismus, sechstes Jahrhundert, siebentes Jahrhundert, Logik, Epistemologie, Schulen des Buddhismus

Über dieses Buch

In this book, an international team of fourteen scholars investigates the Chinese reception of Indian Buddhist ideas, especially in the sixth and seventh centuries. Topics include Buddhist logic and epistemology (pramāṇa, yinming); commentaries on Indian Buddhist texts; Chinese readings of systems as diverse as Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha; the working out of Indian concepts and problematics in new Chinese works; and previously under-studied Chinese evidence for developments in India. The authors aim to consider the ways that these Chinese materials might furnish evidence of broader Buddhist trends, thereby problematizing a prevalent notion of “sinification”, which has led scholars to consider such materials predominantly in terms of trends ostensibly distinctive to China. The volume also tries to go beyond seeing sixth- and seventh-century China primarily as the age of the formation and establishment of the Chinese Buddhist “schools”. The authors attempt to view the ideas under study on their own terms, as valid Buddhist ideas engendered in a rich, “liminal” space of interchange between two large traditions.

Kapitel

Veröffentlicht

05-12-2014

Gedruckte Ausgabe

ISBN: 978-3-943423-19-8

565 Seiten, Hardcover,
Maße: 155 x 220 mm, 39,80 €

Sprache(n)

Englisch

Reihe

Hamburg Buddhist Studies , Bd. 3, ISSN (print): 2190-6769

Copyright (c) 2014 Autorinnen und Autoren

Zitationsvorschlag

Lin, C.- kuo, … Radich, M. (Hrsg.). (2014). A Distant Mirror: Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism (Bde. 3). Hamburg University Press. https://doi.org/10.15460/hup.79.591