Ching Keng

Toward a New Image of Paramartha (eBook, ePUB)

Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350303928
• Artikelnr.: 64712109

Autorenporträt

Ching Keng is Associate Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Abbreviations and Convention
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
Bibliography
Index