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.

Foreword9
Michael Zimmermann
Acknowledgements13
Introduction15
Michael Radich and Chen-kuo Lin
Chinese Translations of Pratyakṣa33
Funayama Toru
Epistemology and Cultivation in Jingying
Huiyuan’s Essay on the Three Means of Valid Cognition63
Chen-kuo Lin
The Theory of Apoha in Kuiji's Cheng weishi lun Shuji101
Shoryu Katsura
A Comparison between the Indian and Chinese
Interpretations of the Antinomic Reason (Viruddhāvyabhicārin)121
Shinya Moriyama
The Problem of Self-Refuting Statements in Chinese Buddhist Logic151
Jakub Zamorski
A Re-examination of the Relationship between the Awakening of Faith
and Dilun School Thought, Focusing on the Works of Huiyuan183
Ching Keng
A Pivotal Text for the Definition of the Two Hindrances in East Asia:
Huiyuan's "Erzhang yi" Chapter217
A. Charles Muller
On the Notion of Kaidaoyi (*Avakāśadānāśraya) as Discussed in
Xuanzang's Cheng weishi lun271
Junjie Chu
Yogācāra Critiques of the Two Truths313
Zhihua Yao
Philosophical Aspects of Sixth-Century Chinese Buddhist Debates on
"Mind and Consciousness"337
Hans-Rudolf Kantor
The Way of Nonacquisition: Jizang’s Philosophy of Ontic Indeterminacy397
Chien-hsing Ho
Divided Opinion among Chinese Commentators on Indian Interpretations of the Parable of the Raft in the Vajracchedikā419
Yoke Meei Choong
Ideas about "Consciousness" in Fifth and Sixth Century Chinese Buddhist
Debates on the Survival of Death by the Spirit, and the Chinese
Background to *Amalavijñāna471
Michael Radich
The Process of Awakening in Early Texts on Buddha-Nature in India513
Michael Zimmermann
About the Authors529
Index535