John W. M. Krummel, Department of Religion, Temple University, Philadelphia
關鍵詞
impurity
摘要
This paper discusses the idea of "pure experience" within the context of the Buddhist tradition and in connection with the notions of emptiness and dependent origination via a reading of Dale Wright's reading of 'Huangbo' in his 'Philosophical Meditations on Zen Buddhism'. The purpose is to appropriate Wright's text in order to engender a response to Steven Katz's contextualist-constructivist thesis that there are no "pure" (i.e., unmediated) experiences. In light of the Mahayana claim that everything is empty of substance, i.e., originates dependently through conditions, contingencies, and contexts, what does the "purity" of the Enlightenment experience mean for Chan/Zen Buddhism?
目次
I. Introduction 57 II. "Pure Experience" in Buddhism 59 III. Dependent Origination and Emptiness in Huangbo 63 IV. The Experience of Emptiness: Realization of the Emptiness of Experience 65 V. The "Pure" in the Experience of Impurity and the Impurity of Experience 67 VI. Conclusion 73 References 74
