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Wholesome Remembrance and the Critique of Memory—From Indian Buddhist Context to Chinese Chan Appropriation

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Although the major part of the chapter’s investigation is on the mode and acts of remembering in Chan Buddhism, Wang opens with a survey of the traditional Indian Buddhist context of remembering, its differentiation of wholesome and unwholesome acts of remembering, and its critique of unwholesome and discursive modes of memory, as Buddhism evolves from Theravada to Mahayana. This context is a necessary condition under which the interaction between Indian and Chinese Buddhist ideologies, or between the inherited tradition and its Chinese Chan appropriation, becomes possible. Wang then examines how Chan masters, from early to classical period, appropriate and develop the traditional distinction of wholesome and unwholesome remembrance and its affirmation of the former and critique of the latter in a Chinese context. As opposed to the widespread Chan hierarchy of forgetfulness over remembrance that has shaped much of our modern understanding, Wang presents a rediscovery of Chan teachings on remembrance, disclosing how remembrance is related to the internal tension between the positive attitude towards the traditional cultivation and the iconoclastic attitude towards it in various Chan ideologies. The approach of these examinations is a combination of textual/contextual inquiry, conceptual analysis and philosophical interpretation. The part of “summary and reflections” includes a review of the uniqueness of the Chan mode of remembering, an analysis of its ethical dimension by using, and comparing it with, Ricoeur’s ethics of memory, and an exploration of the paradoxical relationship between remembering and forgetting.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Gethin’s analysis on Indian Buddhist literature’s focus on the act of remembering, rather than what is remembered; the latter was a Brahmanical focus since the Ṛgveda. I think Chan Buddhist literature indicates the same direction (Gethin 1992: 36).

  2. 2.

    For example, the central idea of John Locke’s theory of personal identity is the recognition of the sameness of self in different times and places through one’s memory of past actions and thoughts. See Locke 1996: 138. Cf. Griffiths 1992: 109, 116; Lopez 1992: 35–36.

  3. 3.

    See Shulman 2010. Also see articles in Gyatso 1992.

  4. 4.

    Ibid. Five hindrances refer to sensual desire, ill will, sloth and torpor, restlessness and remorse, and doubt in the Sati-Paṭṭhāna-Sutta. See Ñāṇamoli and Bodhi 1995: 151.

  5. 5.

    Cox 1992: 78. Cox cited two similar passages from the Pali Abhidharma and Northern Indian Sarvāstivādin Abhidharma texts in his paper; here I cite only the latter.

  6. 6.

    These ten recollections are (1) the Buddha, (2) the Dhamma, (3) the Sangha, (4) morality or virtue, (5) liberality or generosity, (6) deities, (7) respiration, (8) death, (9) the parts of the body, and (10) peace (i.e., nibbāna). See Harrison 1992: 216. Also cf. Shaw 2006. The sequence of the last four recollections in Shaw’s book is a little different.

  7. 7.

    The original Sanskrit text of this scripture has not survived, except for one small fragment found in Khadalik in Central Asia. However, a Tibetan translation made before the ninth century is extant. See Harrison 1978.

  8. 8.

    See King 1980: 33. Also Harrison 1992: 215–216.

  9. 9.

    Harrison, ibid.: 228–229. For the unique nature and structure of commemoration, see Casey 2000, Chap. 10, “Commemoration.”

  10. 10.

    Robert Sharf contributed a good discussion on this point, in Sharf 2014.

  11. 11.

    Translated by Collett Cox, in Cox 1992: 69. Also see Ñāṇamoli and Bodhi 1995: 954.

  12. 12.

    For a study of Zhu Fahu, see Boucher 2006.

  13. 13.

    T15, 586: 7a. These expressions have been seen as one of the earliest Indian sources for the concept of wunian (often translated as no-thought), which dominated the ideology of Chan Buddhism. Cf. Jan 1986: 23.

  14. 14.

    Translation from the Majjhima Nikāya by I. B. Horner, in Horner 1954: 27–28. Also cf. King 1980: 41.

  15. 15.

    T 14, 476: 550c. Translation by Charles Luk, in Luk 1972: 93. Words in square brackets are added by me.

  16. 16.

    Translation from Edward Conze, in Conze 2001: 30, 40.

  17. 17.

    T 14, 481: 661c. Cf. Jan 1986: 23.

  18. 18.

    Cf. Faure 1986: 112–113; Yang 1999: 73–80.

  19. 19.

    T 85, 2837: 1287a; Yanagida 1971: 192. This translation consulted Robert Sharf’s in Sharf 2002: 304. The last sentence was not translated by Sharf in his paper.

  20. 20.

    I follow many leading scholars to see the Guanxin Lun as related to Shenxiu’s teaching, although there have been different arguments about the authorship of this work. For an available survey of the textual study of the Guanxin Lun, see McRae 1986: 325–327; Han 2013: 67–91.

  21. 21.

    This translation consulted Sharf’s in Sharf 2002: 305.

  22. 22.

    Here my grouping of the recorded saying texts of Shenhui and the Platform Sūtra together acknowledges Shenhui’s influence on the text of the Platform Sūtra and some common teachings they share. This does not deny their subtle differences concerning the interpretation of no-thought and other related teachings.

  23. 23.

    Nanyang Heshang Wenda Zazhengyi 南陽和尚問答雜徵義, in Yang 1996: 121–122.

  24. 24.

    Cf. Yampolsky 1967: 148–149, and 12 (of the appended “Tun-huang Text”). I made modifications to Yampolsky’s English translation. Also cf. Yang 2001: 31.

  25. 25.

    Ibid., Yampolsky 1967: 155, and 15 (of the appended “Tun-huang Text”).

  26. 26.

    Cf. Ibid.: 168, and 21 (of the appended “Tun-huang Text”). Translation is mine.

  27. 27.

    Cf. Ibid.: 144–145, and 10 (of the appended “Tun-huang Text”). I modified Yampolsky’s translation.

  28. 28.

    Nanyang Heshang Wenda Zazhengyi 南陽和尚問答雜徵義, in Yang 1996: 78.

  29. 29.

    Nanyang Heshang Dunjiao Jietuo Chanmen Zhiliao Xing Tanyu 南陽和尚頓教解脫禪門直了性壇語, in Yang 1996: 6. Cf. Adamek 2007: 200.

  30. 30.

    Zongmi, Yuanjue Jing Daoshu Chao 圓覺經大疏鈔, in HTC 14: 278c. My English translation consulted the following works, Broughton 2009: 181; Adamek 2011: 38. The same paragraph also appears in a note on the Jingzhong school in Zongmi’s Zhonghua Chuanxindi Chanmen Shizi Chengxi Tu 中華傳心地禪門師資承襲圖. See Kamata 1971: 305.

  31. 31.

    Ibid., HTC 14: 278d. Translation consulted Broughton 2009: 183; Adamek 2011: 38. Also cf. Kamata 1971: 306.

  32. 32.

    Lidai Fabao Ji 歷代法寶記. T 51, 2075: 189a. Cf. Adamek 2007: 336, 338.

  33. 33.

    Nanyang Heshang Dunjiao Jietuo Chanmen Zhiliao Xing Tanyu 南陽和尚頓教解脫禪門直了性壇語, in Yang 1996: 6. Cf. Adamek 2011: 38.

  34. 34.

    For a discussion of denegation in non-Western context, see Wang 2003: 153, 215 note 8.

  35. 35.

    為眾生有念, 假說無念. 正無念之時, 無念不自. Lidai Fabao Ji. T 51, 2075: 189b. English translation from Adamek 2007: 361. I made a minor change. Also cf. Yanagida 1976: 200, 203.

  36. 36.

    若無有念, 無念亦不立. English translation from Yampolsky 1967: 139.

  37. 37.

    Zongmi, Yuanjue Jing Daoshu Chao, in HTC 14: 278d. Cf. Adamek 2011: 44; Broughton 2009: 183; Kamata 1971: 306.

  38. 38.

    T 51, 2075: 187a. Cf. Adamek 2011: 40; Yanagida 1976: 170, 175.

  39. 39.

    For the definition of iconoclasm or “iconoclastic” with regard to Chan Buddhism, see Wang 2012: 22–23.

  40. 40.

    Yuanjue Jing Daoshu Chao, in HTC 14: 278c. Cf. Kamata 1971: 305.

  41. 41.

    HTC 119: 407a. Also cf. Jinhua Jia, “Annotated Translation of Mazu Daoyi’s Discourse,” Sermon 4, in Jia 2006: 126.

  42. 42.

    HTC 135: 652a. English translation from Jia 2006: 126. Brackets are added by me.

  43. 43.

    Bai Juyi, Chuanfatang Bei 傳法堂碑, in Bai 1979, vol. 3, fascicle 41, 912. English translation see Poceski 2007: 65. I made a minor modification.

  44. 44.

    Jingde Chuandeng Lu 景德傳燈錄, fascicle 9, T 51, 2076: 264c.

  45. 45.

    Baizhang Guanglu 百丈廣錄, in Chanzong Jicheng 11: 7316a.

  46. 46.

    時節既至, 如迷忽悟, 如忘忽憶. Jingde Chuandeng Lu, fascicle 9, T 51, 2076: 264b.

  47. 47.

    Guishan Jingce 潙山警策, in Daopei 道霈 (1615-1702)’s Fozu Sanjing Zhinan 佛祖三經指南, fascicle 3, in HTC 59: 185c-191c.

  48. 48.

    Guishan Jingce Zhu 潙山警策注, X 63, 1239: 3. I use the edition of 2005, 中華電子佛典協會 (CBETA) http://www.cbeta.org wherever I quoted from X.

  49. 49.

    Ibid.: 13.

  50. 50.

    Ibid.: 11.

  51. 51.

    The extant edition of this work is of a much later time. A postscript to this edition indicates a print of 1346, but the text was not mentioned by any other Chinese sources. It is reasonable to be cautious in use of this work. But scholars have not found strong evidences of a later forgery. Cf. Shinpan Zengaku daijiten 新版禪學大辭典 1985: 495d; Schlütter 2008: 188, note 47.

  52. 52.

    “不通教典, 亂有引証.” “博古真流 … 從來記憶言辭, 盡是數他珍寶 … 乃是教外別傳 … 無謂不假薰修.” X 63, 1226: 4.

  53. 53.

    “不假筌蹄.” Ibid., 3. Cf. The Zhuangzi, chapter 26 “External Things 外物,” in Zhuangzi Yinde 1966: 75; Watson 1968: 302.

  54. 54.

    Cf. “Special Transmission beyond Teachings,” Wang 2017: 209–211; Foulk 1999. For the overcoming of the limitation of conceptual/discursive language in Chan Buddhism, see Wang 2003, Chap. 7, “The Chan Contribution to the Liminology of Language,” 109–121.

  55. 55.

    For Chan syncretism between Chan practice and scriptural teachings, cf. “Introduction: A Concise History of Chan Buddhism,” in Wang 2017: 30, 34.

  56. 56.

    The term “mainstream” refers to all non-Mahayana Indian Buddhist schools. Cf. “Mainstream Buddhist Schools,” in Buswell and Lopez 2014: 516–517.

  57. 57.

    For various meanings and modes of remembering in Buddhism, cf. Gethin’s analysis of the meanings of remembering in terms of sati and smṛti in Indian Buddhist texts in Gethin 1992: 36–44; Gyatso 1992: “Introduction,” 5. For a phenomenological study of different modes of remembering outside Buddhist context but still methodologically inspiring, see Casey 2000, Part Two and Three.

  58. 58.

    For example, Kapstein compares the “mnemic engagement” and the recovery of dharmakāya in the Great Perfection (Rdzog-chen) tradition of the Rnying-ma-pa school of Tibetan Buddhism with Augutine’s notion. See Kapstein 1992: 258–259. To comment on the Great Perfection tradition of Tibetan Buddhism here is beyond my capacity, but in what follows I will clarify the differences between Hongzhou Chan Buddhism and Augustine or any theistic mystic traditions.

  59. 59.

    For a survey of these two tendencies in Indian tathāgatagarbha thought, see “Context: the necessity of deconstruction,” in Chap. 4 “The Deconstruction of Buddha Nature in Chan Buddhism,” in Wang 2003: 55–65.

  60. 60.

    For a full analysis of the Hongzhou school’s deconstruction of Buddha-nature, see Wang, “No root, no foundation, no mind, no Buddha—deconstruction in the Hongzhou Chan,” ibid.: 72–80.

  61. 61.

    This paragraph benefited very much from Gyatso’s “Introduction,” in Gyatso 1992: 6, although here I do not conceal my disagreement with some of the interpretations.

  62. 62.

    This position can be verified by the above-mentioned Guishan-Baizhang statement that when the [right] time/moment/season comes, it is like the deluded one suddenly becoming awakened, and like forgetting suddenly becoming remembering. The statement shows the masters’ understanding of a quote from the Mahāparinirvāṇa Sūtra: “If you would see Buddha-nature, you should contemplate on time/season and causal conditions (dangguan shijie yinyuan).” See T 12, 375: 777a. It indicates the importance of temporal conditions for the realization of Buddha-nature, and therefore is appropriated by the Honzhou masters to demonstrate their view of placing the realization of Buddha-nature within, not without, temporal conditions.

  63. 63.

    See Ricoeur 2004a: 4, and Chap. 2: “The Exercise of Memory: Uses and Abuses.” Also, Ricoeur 1999; 2004b. For recent studies on Ricoeur’s phenomenology of memory, see Duffy 2009, especially Chap. 3: “Reconciled Being: Narrative and Pardon.” Also, Barash 2010; Junker-Kenny 2004.

  64. 64.

    Cf. “Introduction: A Concise History of Chan Buddhism,” section on “The Trend of Secularization, Activism and Modern Reform in Chan,” in Wang 2017: 37–39. The fact that Chan Buddhist teachings can accommodate socio-ethical engagements does not mean that Chan Buddhists have done enough in developing both socio-ethical theories and practices.

  65. 65.

    For a further explanation of this teaching, see Wang 2007, section III, “The Ethical Consequence of Deconstruction: Wearing out Karma Merely According to Conditions as They Are,” 87–95.

  66. 66.

    Ricoeur 2004b: 15. Also cf. Junker-Kenny 2004: 28.

  67. 67.

    Cf. Keown 2001: 92 and the whole Chap. 4.

  68. 68.

    Nanyang Heshang Wenda Zazhengyi 南陽和尚問答雜徵義, in Yang 1996: 73.

  69. 69.

    Dajian Xiasanshi Yu Zhi Yu 大鑑下三世語之餘,“既不依住善惡二邊, 亦不作不依住知解, 名菩薩覺. 既不依住, 亦不作無依住知解, 始得名為佛覺.” Guzunsu Yulu 古尊宿語錄, fascicle 2, in X 68, 1315: 12. This Supplements to the Recorded Sayings of Baizhang Huaihai is outside of the more reliable Baizhang Guanglu text, and seen by contemporary scholars as a production of later time and not reliable. But the passage I quote here is almost a reiteration of the same passage from the Baizhang Guanglu. I therefore think it is safe to quote it.

  70. 70.

    In contemporary Western philosophy, an illuminating account of how forgetting conditions remembering can be found in Heidegger’s Being and Time where he examines how the forgetfulness of Being marks the inauthentic way “to be” and constitutes the everyday superficial care. However, this forgetting preserves and becomes the condition of possibilities of “remembering” as the disclosure of the authentic way to be. A comparison between Heidegger’s and Chan Buddhist views of forgetting as the condition of remembering, and of the transformation from the former to the latter, is an interesting topic, and deserves serious exploration. As Ricoeur rightly commented on Heidegger, “It is not clear whether the disavowal of forgetting entails the work of memory in its Verfallen …” But Chan Buddhism has been elaborate on the pragmatic transformation from ignorance or forgetting to awakening or remembrance in everyday situations, as I have outlined above. A detailed study and comparison is beyond the limit of this current project. See Heidegger 1962: 388–389; Ricoeur 2004a: 593–594, note 23.

  71. 71.

    For example, Ricoeur refers to the selective function of narrative memory. See Ricoeur 2004a: 85.

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Wang, Y. (2018). Wholesome Remembrance and the Critique of Memory—From Indian Buddhist Context to Chinese Chan Appropriation. In: Wang, Y., Wawrytko, S. (eds) Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy. Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2939-3_4

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