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Buddhism and Its Religious Others examines how Buddhist literature and art from pre-modern Asia understand and represent the character and value of other religions. It looks at the strategies employed by Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian Buddhists to challenge and claim authority over traditions that opposed Buddhism and its influence.
List of contents
- List of Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Buddhism and Its Religious Others
- 1: NATHAN MCGOVERN: Buddhism, S¿¿khya and the Brahmanical Avant-Garde
- 2: CLAIRE MAES: 'The Buddha is a Raft.' On Metaphors, the Language of Liberation, and Religious Others in Early Buddhism
- 3: VINCENT ELTSCHINGER: The Buddha as a Warrior: On Some Martial Metaphors in Early (M¿la)Sarv¿stiv¿da Literature
- 4: C.V. JONES: Shepherds in Wolves' Clothing: bodhisattvas, t¿rthikas and 'bodhisattva-t¿rthikas'
- 5: MARIE-HÉLÈNE GORISSE: What do the Shameless Ones Nonsensically Profess? Genealogy of Buddhist-Jain Philosophical Dialogue
- 6: ALEKSANDRA WENTA: Demons, Wicked Ones and Those who Violate the Samayas: Dharma against the Enemy in Tantric Buddhism
- 7: PERRY SCHMIDT-LEUKEL: The Demonisation of the Other through the Narrative of M¿ra's Defeat (m¿ravijaya)
- 8: STEPHEN R. BOKENKAMP: The Origins of the Origin Debates: Buddhist Responses to Daoist Accounts of the Origins of Buddhism (5th-6th Centuries)
- 9: BENEDETTA LOMI: Outside the Way? Framing Non-Buddhist Practices in Heian Japan
- 10: T.H. BARRETT: Posthumous Conversions of Confucians: A Zen Case Study from Song China to Modern Japan
- Index
About the author
Christopher V. Jones is a research associate and affiliated lecturer at the Faculty of Divinity, and a Bye-Fellow of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. He has trained and taught at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and his research focuses on aspects of primarily Mah?y?na Buddhist literature across Sanskrit, Chinese and Tibetan sources. He is the author of
The Buddhist Self: On Tath?gatagarbha and ?tman (2021).
Summary
Buddhism and Its Religious Others examines how Buddhist literature and art from pre-modern Asia understand and represent the character and value of other religions. It looks at the strategies employed by Indian, Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian Buddhists to challenge and claim authority over traditions that opposed Buddhism and its influence.
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This is an impressively researched and eloquently written book whose individual chapters cohere into presenting a vivid and variegated picture of Buddhism and Its Religious Others..., I can truly say that this volume fills a substantial lacuna in the field, and that it will therefore prove immensely useful to students and scholars studying, teaching and/or researching interreligious relations, as well as Buddhist religious and intellectual history across Asia.
