Chapter 10. Luminous Remains: On Relics, Jewels, and Glass in Chinese Buddhism

2021 ◽  
pp. 242-259
Author(s):  
Francesca Tarocco
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Buddhism

Review of The Two Truths in Chinese Buddhism, by Chang-Qing Shih

2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-137
Author(s):  
Burkhard Scherer
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Buddhism ◽  
Two Truths

Brook Ziporyn’s (Chinese) Buddhist Reading of Chinese Philosophy

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-267
Author(s):  
Paul J. D'Ambrosio
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Chinese Buddhism ◽  
Classroom Discussions ◽  
The Core ◽  
Chinese Thought ◽  
Core Issue ◽  
Tiantai Buddhism ◽  
Early Chinese Philosophy

This review article defends Brook Ziporyn against the charge, quite common in graduate classroom discussions, if not in print, that his readings of early Chinese philosophy are ‘overly Buddhist’. These readings are found in his three most recent books: Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought, Beyond Oneness and Difference: Li and Coherence in Chinese Buddhist Thought and Its Antecedents, and Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism. His readings are clearly Buddhist-influenced, but this is not in and of itself problematic. The core issue is rather to what degree these ‘Buddhist elements’ are actually already existent in, and have subsequently been carried over from, early Chinese thought in the development of Chinese Buddhism. Indeed, some scholars of Chinese Buddhism have pointed out that much of the vocabulary, concepts, and logic used in schools such as Tiantai may owe more to Daoist influences than to Buddhist ones. Accordingly, Ziporyn’s ‘overly Buddhist’ approach might simply be an avenue of interpretation that is actually quite in line with the thinking in the early texts themselves, albeit one that is less familiar (i.e. an early Chinese Buddhist or Ziporyn’s approach). The article also aims to show how Ziporyn’s theory concerning the importance of ‘coherence’ in early and later Chinese philosophy is also quite important in his above work on Tiantai Buddhism, Emptiness and Omnipresence. While in this work Ziporyn almost entirely abstains from using the language of coherence, much of it actually rests on a strong coherence-based foundation, thereby demonstrating not Ziporyn’s own prejudice, but rather the thoroughgoing importance and versatility of his arguments on coherence. Indeed, understanding the importance of coherence in his readings of Tiantai Buddhism (despite the fact that he does not explicitly use coherence-related vocabulary) only bolsters the defense against the claims that he makes ‘overly Buddhist’ readings of early Chinese philosophy.

Chinese Buddhism

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Edkins
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Buddhism

The Religious Acts groups and Modern Challenges in Chinese Buddhism

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 227-252
Author(s):  
Jin-Moo Kim
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Buddhism

Philosophizing Chinese Buddhism as a Necessity

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Author(s):  
Chung-Ying Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Buddhism

scholarly journals THE CHRISTIAN ELEMENT IN CHINESE BUDDHISM

1916 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-602
Author(s):  
JAMES W. INGLIS
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Buddhism
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