Jungnok Park

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How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to ChinaPaperback, 8 January 2013

How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to China
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Part of Series
Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Monographs
Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Equinox Publishing (UK)
Date Published
8 Jan 2013
ISBN-10
1845539974
ISBN-13
9781845539979

Description

How Buddhism Acquired a Soul on the Way to China tells the story of the spread of Buddhist religious thinking and practice from India to China and how, along the way, a religion was changed. While Indian Buddhists had constructed their ideas of self by means of empiricism, anti-Brahmanism and analytic reasoning, Chinese Buddhists did so by means of non-analytic insights, utilising pre-established epistemology and cosmogony. Furthermore, many specific Buddhist ideas were transformed when exchanged from an Indian to a Chinese context, often through the work of translators concept-matching Buddhist and Daoist terms. One of the key changes was the Chinese reinterpretation of the concept of shen - originally an agent of thought which died with the body - into an eternal essence of human spirit, a soul. Though the notion of an imperishable soul was later disputed by Chinese Buddhist scholars the idea of a permanent agent of perception flourished in China. This historical analysis of the concept of self as it developed between Indian and Chinese Buddhism will be of interest to readers of Buddhist Philosophy as well as the History of Ideas.

Product Details

Author:
Jungnok Park
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
8 January 2013
Dimensions:
23.11 x 15.24 x 2.03 cm
ISBN-10:
1845539974
ISBN-13:
9781845539979
Language:
English
Location:
Sheffield
Pages:
272
Weight:
408.23 gm

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