Tsung-Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism,9780824826239

Tsung-Mi and the Sinification of Buddhism

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ISBN13: 9780824826239
ISBN10: 082482623X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2002-05-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Hawaii Pr
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Author Biography

Peter N. Gregory is Jill Ker Conway Professor of Religion and East Asian Studies at Smith College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction
3(24)
Part One: Tsung-mi's Life
A Biography of Tsung-mi
27(66)
Classical Background (780-804)
28(5)
Ch'an Training and the Scripture of Perfect Enlightenment (804-810)
33(25)
Ch'eng-kuan and Hua-yen (810-816)
58(10)
Early Scholarship (816-828)
68(5)
Literati Connections (828-835)
73(12)
The Sweet Dew Incident (835)
85(3)
Later Years and Death (835-841)
88(5)
Part Two: Doctrinal Classification
Doctrinal Classification
93(22)
The Hermeneutical Problem in Buddhism
93(11)
The Chinese Context
104(11)
Doctrinal Classification in the Hua-yen Tradition
115(21)
Chih-yen's Classification Schemes
117(10)
Fa-tsang's Classification Scheme
127(7)
Tsung-mi's Classification Scheme
134(2)
The Sudden Teaching
136(18)
The Sudden Teaching According to Fa-tsang
137(5)
The Problematical Nature of the Sudden Teaching
142(2)
The Sudden Teaching and Ch'an
144(2)
The Sudden Teaching in Tsung-mi's Thought
146(8)
The Perfect Teaching
154(19)
The Samadhi of Oceanic Reflection
154(3)
Two Paradigms
157(5)
The Shift from Shih-shih wu-ai to Li-shih wu-ai
162(3)
The Teaching that Reveals the Nature
165(2)
The Scripture of Perfect Enlightenment
167(6)
Part Three: The Ground of Practice
A Cosmogonic Map for Buddhist Practice
173(33)
The Five Stages of Phenomenal Evolution
173(14)
Nature Origination and Conditioned Origination
187(5)
Sudden Enlightenment Followed by Gradual Cultivation
192(4)
Tsung-mi's Ten-Stage Model
196(10)
The Role of Emptiness
206(18)
A Cosmogony-Derived P'an-chiao
206(3)
Tsung-mi's Theory of Religious Language
209(7)
The Meaning of Awareness
216(2)
The Tathagatagarbha Critique of Emptiness
218(6)
Tsung-mi's Critique of Ch'an
224(31)
Ch'an and the Teachings
224(6)
Critique of the Different Types of Ch'an
230(14)
Historical Context
244(11)
Part Four: The Broader Intellectual Tradition
Confucianism and Taoism in Tsung-mi's Thought
255(40)
Tsung-mi's Extension of P'an-chiao to the Two Teachings
256(5)
Tsung-mi's Critique of Confucianism and Taoism
261(18)
The Teaching of Men and Gods
279(6)
Tsung-mi's Synthesis of Confucianism and Taoism
285(8)
Tsung-mi's Intellectual Personality
293(2)
Tsung-mi and Neo-Confucianism
295(18)
Chu Hsi's Critique of the Buddhist Understanding of Nature
297(7)
A Common Problematic
304(2)
The Problem of Predication
306(3)
The Structural Parallels
309(4)
Appendix I A Note on Biographical Sources 313(2)
Appendix II A Note on Tsung-mi's Writings 315(12)
Glossary 327(8)
Bibliography 335(20)
Index 355

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