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The Sentient Reflexivity of Buddha Nature: Metaphorizing Tathagatagarbha |
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Smyer Yu, Dan
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世界宗教文化=The Religious Cultures in the World
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| Volume | n.6 |
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| Date | 2012.12 |
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| Pages | 13 - 22 |
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| Publisher | 中國社會科學院世界宗教研究所雜誌社 |
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http://iwr.cass.cn/
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| Location | 北京, 中國 [Beijing, China] |
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| Content type | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Dan Smyer Yu, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute For the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, G6ttingen, Germany. |
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| Keyword | Buddha Nature; tathagatagarbha; metaphor; sentience; dichotomy |
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| Abstract | 佛性或如來藏(梵文tathagatagarbha)是佛教哲學體系和教義里一個具爭議的核心內容。自古以來,"誰或什麼具有佛性"、"佛性是怎樣顯現的",以及"佛性在佛教解脫論裡起到怎樣的作用"等問題在佛教實踐中及佛學研討裡是一系列持續的論題。本文作者基于自己對佛教文獻的解讀希望表達三個有關佛性的論點。首先,佛性與其所謂的反面"眾生"(sentience)是不分離的。第二，佛性不是一樣具型的東西，或是某個過去的或隱藏的精神狀態，而是一個當下的、持續的生命神識狀態。第三，佛性在經文里是一類使用隱喻和譬喻的啟發式(heuristic)辯術方式，其目的是激起佛教徒或任何對佛家哲學思想有興致的人對自身的生命狀態進行內在視覺上的觀想作用。
Buddha Nature, or tathagatagarbha in Sanskrit, is a core element of Buddhist philosophical discourse and doctrinal debate. Who or what possesses Buddha Nature, how it manifests itself, and what role it plays in Buddhist soteriology have been sustained questions in actual Buddhist practices and in the works of Buddhologists from ancient times to the present. Based on the author’s textual interpretation, this paper attempts to present a threefold argument: Buddha Nature is not separate from its alleged opposite, sentience; it is not a tangible substance but a state of being whose felt meaning is only metaphorically conveyed; and finally it is a heuristic device or a means of provoking a Buddhist or anyone who takes interest in Buddhism, to visualize the inner complexity of his or her sentient mode of being. |
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| Table of contents | Metaphorizing tathagatagarbha as an actual state of consciousness 15
Rescuing icchantikas（一禪提） with Buddha Nature 17
Buddha Nature as a reflex-turned- vision for Enlightenment 18
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| ISSN | 10076255 (P) |
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| Created date | 2019.07.29 |
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| Modified date | 2024.03.08 |
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