Toward a New Image of Paramārtha

Toward a New Image of Paramārtha (Keng 2023)

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Yogacāra and Tathāgatagarbha are often regarded as antagonistic Indian Buddhist traditions. Paramārtha (499–569) is traditionally credited with amalgamating these philosophies by translating one of the most influential Tathāgatagarbha texts in East Asia, the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana, and introducing Tathāgatagarbha notions into his translations of Yogacāra texts.

Engaging with the digitalized Chinese Buddhist canon, Ching Keng draws on clues from a long-lost Dunhuang fragment [T2805] and considers its striking similarities with Paramārtha'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 Paramārtha and makes the case that the fragment holds the key to recover his original teachings. (Source: H-Net)

Link to T2805 on CBETA: https://cbetaonline.dila.edu.tw/zh/T2805

Citation	Keng, Ching. Toward a New Image of Paramārtha: Yogacāra and Tathāgatagarbha Buddhism Revisited. Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies. London: Bloomsbury, 2023.

List of Illustrationsviii
Acknowledgementsx
List of Abbreviations and Conventionxii

Introduction1
1 Two Competing Readings of the Notion of Jiexing 解性21
2 Doubts about the Connection between the Awakening of Faith and Paramārtha37
3 A Philological Investigation of Dunhuang Fragment T280551
4 Doctrinal Coherence between T2805 and the Works of Paramārtha107
5 Two Shelun Lineages and How the Awakening of Faith Came to Be Attributed to Paramārtha123
6 What Exactly Is Jiexing?151
7 Paramārtha as a Successor to Vasubandhu177
8 Conclusion211

Notes219
Bibliography257
Index268

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