Toward a new image of Paramartha : Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism revisited / Ching Keng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keng, Ching, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies.

Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paramartha , 499-569.

Paramartha.

Philosophy.

Religion--Buddhism--India.

Religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha are often regarded as antagonistic Indian Buddhist traditions. Paramartha (499-569) is traditionally credited with amalgamating these philosophies by translating one of the most influential Tathagatagarbha texts in East Asia, the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana, and introducing Tathagatagarbha notions into his translations of Yogacara texts. Engaging with the digitalized Chinese Buddhist canon, Ching Keng draws on clues from a long-lost Dunhuang fragment and considers its striking similarities with Paramartha's corpus with respect to terminology, style of phrasing, and doctrines. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the concept of jiexing, Keng demystifies the image of Paramartha and makes the case that the fragment holds the key to recover his original teachings..

Contents:

Introduction

1. Two Competing Readings of the Notion of Jiexing

2. Doubts about the Connection between the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana and Paramartha

3. A Philological Investigation of Dunhuang Fragment T2805

4. Doctrinal Coherence between T2805 and the Works of Paramartha

5. Two Shelun Lineages and How the Awakening of Faith Came to be Attributed to Paramartha

6. What Exactly is Jiexing?

7. Paramartha as a Successor to Vasubandhu

Conclusion .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350303935

1350303933

9781350303928

1350303925

9781350303911

1350303917

OCLC:

1353824421

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9781350303935 doi.