Korea’s Great Buddhist-Confucian Debate: The Treatises of Chŏng Tojŏn (Sambong) and Hamhŏ Tŭkt’Ong (Kihwa)

Muller, A. Charles (譯); Muller, A. Charles (引言)

著者

Muller, A. Charles (譯) ; Muller, A. Charles (引言)

出版年月日

2015.05

ページ

192

出版者

University of Hawaii Press

出版サイト

https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/

出版地

Honolulu, HI, US [檀香山, 夏威夷州, 美國]

シリーズ

Korean Classics Library: Philosophy and Religion

資料の種類

書籍=Book

言語

英文=English

ノート

A. Charles Muller is professor in the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo. His main work lies in the fields of Korean Buddhism, East Asian Yogācāra, East Asian classical lexicography, and online scholarly resource development.

キーワード

Buddhist-Confucian debate; Neo-Confucianism; Sŏn; Kihwa; Chŏng Tojŏn; essence-function; ti-yong; c'he-yong; Chosŏn; Koryŏ

抄録

This volume makes available in English the seminal treatises in Korea's greatest interreligious debate of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. On Mind, Material Force, and Principle and An Array of Critiques of Buddhism by Confucian statesman Chŏng Tojŏn (1342–1398) and Exposition of Orthodoxy by Sŏn monk Kihwa (1376–1433) are presented here with extensive annotation. A substantial introduction provides a summary and analysis of the philosophical positions of both Neo-Confucianism and Buddhism as well as a germane history of the interactions between these two traditions in East Asia, offering insight into religious tensions that persist to this day.

Translator A. Charles Muller shows how, from the time Confucianism and Buddhism met in China, these thought systems existed, along with Daoism, in a competing relationship that featured significant mutual influence. A confrontative situation eventually developed in China, wherein Confucian leaders began to criticize Buddhism. During the late-Koryŏ and early-Chosŏn periods in Korea, the Neo-Confucian polemic became the driving force in the movement to oust Buddhism from its position as Korea's state religion. In his essays, Chŏng drew together the gamut of arguments that had been made against Buddhism throughout its long history in Korea. Kihwa's essay met Neo-Confucian contentions with an articulate Buddhist response. Thus, in a rare moment in the history of religions, a true philosophical debate ensued.

This debate was made possible based upon the two religions' shared philosophical paradigm: essence-function (ch'e-yong). This traditional East Asian way of interpreting society, events, phenomena, human beings, and the world understands all things to have both essence and function, two contrasting yet wholly contiguous and mutually containing components. All three East Asian traditions took this as their underlying philosophical paradigm, and it is through this paradigm that they evaluated and criticized each other's doctrines and practices.

Specialists in philosophy, religion, and Korean studies will appreciate Muller's exploration of this pivotal moment in Korean intellectual history. Because it includes a broad overview of the interactive history of East Asian religions, this book can also serve as a general introduction to East Asian philosophical thought.

Front Matter
Copyright Page
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Introduction

Translations
On Mind, Material Force, and Principle (Simgiri p’yŏn): by Chŏng Tojŏn (Sambong)
An Array of Critiques of Buddhism (Pulssi chappyŏn): by Chŏng Tojŏn (Sambong)
Exposition of Orthodoxy (Hyŏnjŏng non): by Kihwa (Hamhŏ Tŭkt’ong)

End Matter
Appendix 1: Simgiri pyŏn 心氣理篇
Appendix 2: Pulssi chappyŏn 心氣理篇
Appendix 3: Hyŏnjŏng non 顯正論
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Translator
Production Notes

ISBN

9780824853808 (hc); 9780824892647 (pbk)

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