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Onto-theology and Emptiness: The Nature of Buddha-Nature
Author Duckworth, Douglas
Source Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Volumev.82 n.4
Date2014.12
Pages1070 - 1090
PublisherOxford University Press
Publisher Url http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/
LocationOxford, UK [牛津, 英國]
Content type期刊論文=Journal Article
Language英文=English
NoteDouglas Duckworth, Department of Religion, Temple University.
AbstractIn this article, I chart a trajectory from deconstruction to embodiment in the intellectual history of Buddhist traditions in Tibet. I focus on embodiment as a participatory approach to radically deconstructed and unthematized meaning, in contrast to an interpretation of truth as purely an analytic category or an approach to meaning that deals with values, such as emptiness, as simply truth claims or representations. I show how certain Buddhists in Tibet have represented the meaning of emptiness as a uniquely participatory encounter in such a way that its meaning is necessarily embodied. To speak of it otherwise, I argue, is to misrepresent its meaning fundamentally. An important way that the embodiment of emptiness is formulated is through the discourses of buddha-nature (tathāgatagarbha). I show how Tibetan interpretations of Buddha-nature reflect postmodern concerns about metaphysics and onto-theology.
Table of contents DE/CONSTRUCTING EMPTINESS 1073
FROM ABSENT-MINDED BODIES TO BODY-CITTA 1075
A BUDDHIST ONTO-THEO-LOGY? 1080
CONCLUSION 1085
ISSN00027189 (P); 14774585 (E)
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Created date2014.12.12
Modified date2020.01.10



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