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The "Non-Duality of Goodness and Badness": Chuandeng on the Badness Inherent in Base Reality=善惡不二:傳燈(1554 - 1628)對真如性具善惡之探討 |
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白立冰 (著)=Brewster, Ernest B (au.)
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第四屆「近世東亞佛教的文獻和研究」國際學術研討會論文集
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Volume | v.1 n.1 |
Date | 2021.05 |
Publisher | 佛光大學佛教研究中心 |
Location | 宜蘭, 臺灣 [I-lan, Taiwan] |
Content type | 會議論文=Proceeding Article |
Language | 英文=English |
Note | 作者:聖嚴漢傳佛教博士後研究員 |
Keyword | Thusness (Tathatā); ultimate reality; dharmas; essence-function (ti-yong); principle-phenomena (Li-shi); inherent badness |
Abstract | This per examines the arguments developed by the Ming-Dynasty Buddhist scholar-monk, Chuandeng 傳燈 (1554-1628), in defense of the doctrine that “thusness” (Sanskrit, hereafter Skt.: tathatā; Chinese, hereafter Chi.: zhenru 真如), “base reality as it really is” (Chi.: zhenshi 真實), contains “inherent badness” (Chi.: xing’e 性惡). In his seminal tract of Tiantai Buddhist apologetics, the Treatise on the Goodness and Badness Inherent in Nature (Chi.: Xing shan e lun 性善惡論), Chuandeng develops the doctrine that the “dharmas” (Chi.: fa 法), the basic constituents that comprise the entirety of base reality, have coexisting “dispositions” (Chi.: xingde性德) of “inherent goodness” (Chi.: xing shan性 善 ) and inherent badness. Chuandeng argues that the “unsatisfactoriness” (Skt.: duḥkha: Chi.: ku 苦) of life as it is ordinarily lived is due to the activation of the inherent badness within the dharmas. In so doing, Chuandeng upholds the Tiantai teaching that the “liberation” (Chi.: jietuo 解脫) from the unsatisfactoriness of quotidian life is contingent upon an engagement with the inherent badness of base reality. |
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Created date | 2023.06.26 |
Modified date | 2023.07.10 |

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