A Distant Mirror

Book

In this book, an international team of fourteen scholars investigates the Chinese reception of Indian Buddhist ideas, especially in the sixth and seventh centuries. Topics include Buddhist logic and epistemology (pramāṇa, yinming); commentaries on Indian Buddhist texts; Chinese readings of systems as diverse as Madhyamaka, Yogācāra and tathāgatagarbha; the working out of Indian concepts and problematics in new Chinese works; and previously under-studied Chinese evidence for developments in India. The authors aim to consider the ways that these Chinese materials might furnish evidence of broader Buddhist trends, thereby problematizing a prevalent notion of “sinification”, which has led scholars to consider such materials predominantly in terms of trends ostensibly distinctive to China. The volume also tries to go beyond seeing sixth- and seventh-century China primarily as the age of the formation and establishment of the Chinese Buddhist “schools”. The authors attempt to view the ideas under study on their own terms, as valid Buddhist ideas engendered in a rich, “liminal” space of interchange between two large traditions. (Source: Hamburg University Press)

Citation	Lin, Chen-kuo, and Michael Radich, eds. A Distant Mirror: Articulating Indic Ideas in Sixth and Seventh Century Chinese Buddhism. Hamburg Buddhist Studies 3. Hamburg: Hamburg University Press, 2014. https://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/volltexte/2014/146/pdf/HamburgUP_HBS03_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf.

Foreword (Zimmermann, Michael) HamburgUP_HBS03_Zimmermann_Foreword_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Acknowledgements HamburgUP_HBS03_Acknowledgement_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Introduction (Radich, Michael; Lin, Chen-kuo) HamburgUP_HBS03_RadichLin_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Chinese Translations of Pratyakṣa (Funayama, Toru) HamburgUP_HBS03_Funayama_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Epistemology and Cultivation in Jingying Huiyuan’s "Essay on the Three Means of Valid Cognition" (Lin, Chen-kuo) HamburgUP_HBS03_Lin_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

The Theory of Apoha in Kuiji’s "Cheng weishi lun Shuji" (Katsura, Shoryu) HamburgUP_HBS03_Katsura_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

A Comparison between the Indian and Chinese Interpretations of the Antinomic Reason (Viruddhāvyabhicārin) (Moriyama, Shinya) HamburgUP_HBS03_Moriyama_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

The Problem of Self-Refuting Statements in Chinese Buddhist Logic (Zamorski, Jakub) HamburgUP_HBS03_Zamorski_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

A Re-examination of the Relationship between the Awakening of Faith and Dilun School Thought, Focusing on the Works of Huiyuan (Keng, Ching) HamburgUP_HBS03_Keng_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

A Pivotal Text for the Definition of the Two Hindrances in East Asia: Huiyuan’s “Erzhang yi” Chapter (Muller, A. Charles) HamburgUP_HBS03_Muller_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

On the Notion of Kaidaoyi (*Avakāśadānāśraya) as Discussed in Xuanzang’s "Cheng weishi lun" (Chu, Junjie) HamburgUP_HBS03_Chu_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Yogācāra Critiques of the Two Truths (Yao, Zhihua) HamburgUP_HBS03_Yao_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Philosophical Aspects of Sixth-Century Chinese Buddhist Debates on “Mind and Consciousness” (Kantor, Hans-Rudolf) HamburgUP_HBS03_Kantor_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

The Way of Nonacquisition: Jizang’s Philosophy of Ontic Indeterminacy (Ho, Chien-hsing) HamburgUP_HBS03_Ho_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Divided Opinion among Chinese Commentators on Indian Interpretations of the Parable of the Raft in the Vajracchedikā (Choong, Yoke Meei) HamburgUP_HBS03_Choong_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Ideas about “Consciousness” in Fifth and Sixth Century Chinese Buddhist Debates on the Survival of Death by the Spirit, and the Chinese Background to *Amalavijñāna (Radich, Michael) HamburgUP_HBS03_Radich_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

The Process of Awakening in Early Texts on Buddha-Nature in India (Zimmermann, Michael) HamburgUP_HWS03_Zimmermann_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

About the Authors HamburgUP_HBS03_Authors_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf

Index HamburgUP_HBS03_Index_LinRadich_Mirror.pdf