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Zusatztext For well over a century Chinese, Japanese, and Western scholars have labored over the question of how, why, and with what warrant the Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha traditions of Indian Mahayana Buddhism came to be so distinctively and consequentially intertwined in Chinese Buddhist thought. The focus of these labors has long been the inestimably influential text known as the Mahayana Awakening of Faith ( Dasheng qixin lun ) and its alleged association with the work of the Indian Missionary Paramartha. In this learnèd and rigorously argued study, Keng has given us a Paramartha untethered from the Awakening of Faith thereby allowing us to see him more clearly as a faithful, albeit original, exponent of Yogacara doctrine. Keng's exemplary study will surely came to be recognized as essential to all future study of the medieval development of Chinese— and Indian — Buddhist doctrine. Informationen zum Autor Ching Keng is Associate Professor of Buddhist Philosophy at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Vorwort A reinterpretation of the traditional image of Paramartha and his transmission of Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism. Zusammenfassung Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha are often regarded as antagonistic Indian Buddhist traditions. Paramartha (499-569) is traditionally credited with amalgamating these philosophies by translating one of the most influential Tathagatagarbha texts in East Asia, the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana , and introducing Tathagatagarbha notions into his translations of Yogacara texts. Engaging with the digitalized Chinese Buddhist canon, Ching Keng draws on clues from a long-lost Dunhuang fragment and considers its striking similarities with Paramartha’s corpus with respect to terminology, style of phrasing, and doctrines. In this cutting-edge interpretation of the concept of jiexing , Keng demystifies the image of Paramartha and makes the case that the fragment holds the key to recover his original teachings. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Tables and FiguresAbbreviations and Convention Introduction 1. Two Competing Readings of the Notion of Jiexing 2. Doubts about the Connection between the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana and Paramartha 3. A Philological Investigation of Dunhuang Fragment T2805 4. Doctrinal Coherence between T2805 and the Works of Paramartha5. Two Shelun Lineages and How the Awakening of Faith Came to be Attributed to Paramartha6. What Exactly is Jiexing ?7. Paramartha as a Successor to Vasubandhu Conclusion Notes BibliographyIndex...
