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Religious Meaning of Zhiyi's Interpretation of "Invocation and Marvelous Response (感應妙)": Focusing on Fahua xuanyi (法華玄義) |
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Author |
Kang, Kyung Sook
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Source |
International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture=국제불교문화사상사학회
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Volume | v.25 |
Date | 2015.09 |
Pages | 143 - 155 |
Publisher | International Association for Buddhist Thought and Culture |
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http://iabtc.org/
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Location | Seoul, Korea [首爾, 韓國] |
Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Keyword | Invocation and Marvelous Response; Capacity; Response; Fitness; Contrast; Relatedness; Suitability |
Abstract | To all religious people, ``invocation and response (感應)`` is the driving force behind faith. In Buddhism, it is the communion of the Buddha``s mind with the mind of the practitioner. To be more specific, it is the mindset of faith and/or the inherent good within sentient beings that interacts and communicates with the minds of buddhas and bodhisattvas; this causes the buddhas and bodhisattvas to respond. Thus, it is a recognition of our mindset of faith by the Buddha and his response to it. The Lotus Sutra preaches most vividly the concept of ``invocation and response`` between Buddha and practitioners. Furthermore, the Lotus Sutra was the basis for the Beophwa Yeongheom-jeon (法華靈驗傳, Miraculous Talks of the Lotus Sutra) which explains miraculous cases of ``invocation and response`` in China and Korea. Tiantai Zhiyi (天台智議, 538-97), technically listed as the fourth patriarch but also the de facto founder of the Tiantai school in China, explained ``invocation and response`` in the interpretation of ``Invocation and Marvelous Response (感應妙)`` in his book Fahua xuanyi (法華玄義, Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra). He said ``invocation and response`` is an interaction of the empathy or receptivity of sentient beings and the response (``grace``) of a buddha or the Dharma. |
Table of contents | I. Introduction 144 II. Zhiyi’s Invocation and Response 146 III. The Interpretation of Invocation and Response in the Fahua xuanyi (法華玄義) 148 A. The meaning of yantra (機, agent; function) 148 B. The meaning of 應 (saṃprayukta) 150 IV. Conclusion 150 Glossary 152 Abbreviations 154 References 154
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ISSN | 15987914 (P) |
DOI | 10.16893/IJBTC.25.7 |
Hits | 45 |
Created date | 2017.07.12 |
Modified date | 2017.07.13 |
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