Evil and/or/as the good : omnicentrism, intersubjectivity and value paradox in Tiantai Buddhist thought / Brook Ziporyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziporyn, Brook, 1964-

Series:

Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 51.

Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ; 51

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tiantai Buddhism--Doctrines--History.

Tiantai Buddhism.

Zhili, 960-1028.

Zhili.

Good and evil.

Tiantai Buddhism--Doctrines.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 482 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2000.

Summary:

SOther than the devil, there is no Buddha; other than the Buddha, there is no devil.S The Chinese monk Siming Zhili (960-1028) uttered this remark as part of his justification for his self-immolation. An exposition of the intent, implications, and resonances of this one sentence, this book expands and unravels the context in which the seeming paradox of the ultimate identity of good and evil is to be understood. In analyzing this idea, Brook Ziporyn provides an overview of the development of Tiantai thought from the fifth through the eleventh centuries in China and contributes to our understanding of Chinese intellectual culture and Chinese Buddhism, as well as to basic ontological, epistemological, and axiological issues of interest in modern philosophy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [455]-464) and index.

ISBN:

0674002482

OCLC:

43441500