The Unlikely Buddhologist

Tiantai Buddhism in Mou Zongsan's New Confucianism
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-17737-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 279 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1300 g

Reihe: Modern Chinese Philosophy

Mou Zongsan (1909-1995) was such a seminal, polymathic figure that scholars of Asian philosophy and religion will be absorbing his influence for at least a generation. Drawing on expertise in Confucian, Buddhist, Daoist, and modern Western thought, Mou built a system of “New Confucian” philosophy aimed at answering one of the great questions: “What is the relationship between value and being?” However, though Mou acknowledged that he derived his key concepts from Tiantai Buddhist philosophy, it remains unclear exactly how and why he did so. In response, this book investigates Mou’s buddhological writings in the context of his larger corpus and explains how and why he incorporated Buddhist ideas selectively into his system. Written extremely accessible, it provides a comprehensive unpacking of Mou’s ideas about Buddhism, Confucianism, and metaphysics with the precision needed to make them available for critical appraisal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clower, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Buddhismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents
Chapter One: Mou Zongsan, His Times, and His Aims
Chapter Two: “Philosophy” and the Building Blocks of Mou’s Universe
Chapter Three: What the Buddha Taught – The Fable of the Five Periods
Chapter Four: The Buddhist Philosophers
Chapter Five: Where Buddhists Go Wrong
Chapter Six: So What Good is Buddhism?
Chapter Seven: Toward an Appraisal of Mou’s Use of Buddhist Philosophy

Über Autor(innen)

Jason T. Clower, Ph.D. (2008) in the Study of Religion, Harvard University, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at California State University, Chico. He studies the Buddhist-Confucian relationship in China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.