Overview
- A rare and serious approach to Chinese Buddhism as philosophy
- An examination of the process whereby Buddhism became grounded in China’s intellectual culture
- Reading and assessing the texts of Chinese Buddhism within the Chinese cultural context
- Highlights philosophical topics of interest to students of western philosophical tradition
- Addresses a growing need for both Chinese and non-Chinese to understand China’s rich thought and culture as a key player in global politics and economics
Part of the book series: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy (DCCP, volume 9)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Intersections: Assimilating and Appropriating Buddhism
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Intersections: Interacting with Indigenous Traditions
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Schools, Thinkers, Ideas, and Texts: The Sanlun School 三論宗
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Schools, Thinkers, Ideas, and Texts: The Faxiang School 法相宗
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Schools, Thinkers, Ideas, and Texts: The Tiantai School 天臺宗
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Schools, Thinkers, Ideas, and Texts: The Huayan School 華嚴宗
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About this book
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. .
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Sandra A. Wawrytko, B.A. in philosophy, Knox College; M.A. & Ph.D. in Philosophy, Washington University in St. Louis; Director of Center for Asian & Pacific Studies, and Professor in the Department of Philosophy, San Diego State University; specialization: Buddhist and Daoist epistemology and aesthetics in the context of neuroscience; plus over 30 years of experience traveling and teaching in Asia, including intensive summer classes in Buddhism at Tsung Lin University, Taiwan. Recent publications: “Buddhist Nondualism: Deconstructing Gender and Other Delusions of the Discriminating Mind,” in Chinese Philosophy and Gender Studies (Bloomsbury, 2016); Editor, Asian Thought and Culture series, Peter Lang (more than 60 volumes); forthcoming “Women on Love—Idealization in the Philosophies of Diotima (Symposium) and Murasaki Shikibu (The Tale of Genji),” Philosophy East and West, 2018. Recent research/course offerings include Global Aesthetics, Asian Models of Leadership, the Neuroscience of Buddhism, and Dissent through Sex and Satire.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Dao Companion to Chinese Buddhist Philosophy
Editors: Youru Wang, Sandra A. Wawrytko
Series Title: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2939-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature B.V. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-2938-6Published: 18 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-2939-3Published: 31 January 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-0275
Series E-ISSN: 2542-8780
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 440
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Non-Western Philosophy, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Religion, Regional and Cultural Studies