Buddhism and its religious others : historical encounters and representations / edited by C.V. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jones, Christopher V. (Christopher Victor), 1986- editor.

Series:

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 243.

British Academy scholarship online.

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 243

British Academy scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buddhism--Relations.

Buddhism.

Buddhist literature.

Buddhist art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 230 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This volume examines how Buddhist literature and art from pre-modern Asia understand and represent the character and value of other religions. It looks at the strategies employed by Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian Buddhists to challenge and claim authority over traditions that opposed Buddhism and its influence.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title

Title page

Copyright information

Dedication

Table of contents

List of Plates

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Buddhism and Its Religious Others

1 Buddhism, Sāṃkhya and the Brahmanical Avant-Garde

2 'The Buddha is a Raft': On Metaphors, the Language of Liberation, and Religious Others in Early Buddhism

3 The Buddha as a Warrior: On Some Martial Metaphors in Early (Mūla)Sarvāstivāda Literature

4 Shepherds in Wolves' Clothing: bodhisattvas, tīrthikas and 'bodhisattva-tīrthikas'

5 What do the Shameless Ones Nonsensically Profess? Genealogy of Buddhist-Jain Philosophical Dialogue

6 Demons, Wicked Ones and Those Who Violate the Samayas: Dharma Against the Enemy in Tantric Buddhism

7 The Demonisation of the Other through the Narrative of Māra's Defeat (māravijaya)

8 The Origins of the Origin Debates: Buddhist Responses to Daoist Accounts of the Origins of Buddhism (5th-6th Centuries)

9 Outside the Way? Framing Non-Buddhist Practices in Heian Japan

10 Posthumous Conversions of Confucians: A Zen Case Study from Song China to Modern Japan

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on October 10, 2022).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-80596-045-8

1-80596-074-1

0-19-197670-9

OCLC:

1532789997