Youxuan Wang, Wang Youxuan

Buddhism and Deconstruction

Towards a Comparative Semiotics

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a semiotic study of a corpus of texts that Kumârajîva (344-413 CE), Paramârtha (499~569 CE) and Xuanzang (599~664 CE) transmitted from India to China, featuring a critical reading of the Dazhidu Lun (T1509, Mahâ-Prajñâpâramitâ-upadeúa-Úâstra), San Wuxing Lun (T1617, Try-asvabhâva-prakara.na), and Guangbai Lun (T1571, Catu.húataka-úâstra-kârika). Focusing its attention on the Mahâyâna Buddhist notion of samatâ, it identifies a Buddhist semiotics which anticipates Derrida's invocation of the notion of the Same in his deconstruction of binary oppositions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781138862500
• ISBN-10: 1138862509
• Artikelnr.: 42968320

Autorenporträt

Wang, Dr Youxuan; Youxuan, Wang

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The pursuit of signs; Chapter 1 Three grades of understanding
in the H?nay?na analytic system: A structural study of the list of
seventy-five factors; Chapter 2 Undoing the H?nay?na Onto-epistemological
categories: A semiotic approach to the list of eighteen points about
emptiness; Chapter 3 Three ways of looking at the un-arisen: The Same in
Kum?raj?va's Madhyamaka system; Chapter 4 Dialectic of construction and
de-construction in the Vijñ?nav?da system: The Same in Param?rtha's Shèlùn
system; Chapter 5 Deconstruction of time in Dharmap?la's commentary on
?ryadeva's Treatise in Four Hundred Verses: The Same in Xuánzàng's F?xiàng
system; Chapter 6 Three ways of looking at the un-arisen in French
deconstruction: Derrida's conception of the Same; Chapter 7 Afterword:
Three semiotic models;