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Ontological Pluralism in Abhidharma Debates about the Existence of Past and Future Dharmas |
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Guerrero, Laura P. (著)
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| Source |
Philosophy East and West
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| Volume | v.73 n.2 |
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| Date | 2023.04 |
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| Pages | 264 - 285 |
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| Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
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https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/
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| Location | Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國] |
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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 | Author Affiliation: College of William & Mary, USA. |
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| Abstract | There is debate about the ontological status of conventional entities in Abhidharma thought. Buddhist texts often draw a distinction between two different kinds of entities, ultimately real entities (paramārtha-sat) and conventionally real entities (saṃvṛti-sat), but are often unclear about what the distinction entails. The debate about whether past and future dharmas are ultimately real reveals that Sam.ghabhadra and Vasubandhu—two prominent Abhidharma philosophers—fundamentally disagree about whether reality consists in one or many modes of being. Saṃghabhadra's Sarvāstivāda position is best understood as the ontologically pluralist view that a dharma can enjoy three distinct but equally fundamental temporal modes of being. Vasubandhu's position is that reality is univocal, that everything is real in the same sense. Because Saṃghabhadra is a pluralist and Vasubandhu is not, Saṃghabhadra affirms the reality of conventional entities whereas Vasubandhu does not. |
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| Table of contents | I. Introduction 264
II. Basic Abhidharma Ontology 264
III. The Debate: Are Past and Future Dharmas Dravya? 267
Time 267
Sarvāstivāda: “All Exists” 267
Vasubandhu’s Critique 268
Saṃghabhadra’s Defense 269
IV. Ontological Pluralism and Sarvāstivāda 270
Saṃghabhadra’s Pluralism 270
V. Implications for the Existential Status of Conventional Entities 273
Vasubandhu: Past and Future Dharmas are Conventionally Real and Do Not Exist 274
VI. Conclusion 278
Acknowledgments 278
Notes 279
References 284 |
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| ISSN | 00318221 (P); 15291898 (E) |
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| DOI | 10.1353/pew.2023.a898068 |
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| Hits | 136 |
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| Created date | 2024.03.15 |
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| Modified date | 2024.03.19 |
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