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Buddha-Nature and a Dialectic of Presence and Absence in the Works of Mi-Pham |
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作者 |
Duckworth, Douglas Samuel (著)
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出處題名 |
Dissertation Abstracts International
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卷期 | v.66 n.5 Section A |
出版日期 | 2005 |
出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
出版者網址 |
https://www.proquest.com/
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出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
使用語言 | 英文=English |
學位類別 | 博士 |
校院名稱 | University of Virginia |
系所名稱 | Department of religious Studies |
指導教授 | Hopkins, P. Jeffrey |
畢業年度 | 2005 |
附註項 | 336p |
關鍵詞 | Buddha-nature; Presence; Absence; Ju Mipham Rgya Mtsho; Two truths |
摘要 | This dissertation addresses the relationship between metaphysical presence and absence (emptiness) in Buddhism through a focus on the Nying-ma tradition as articulated in the works of Mi-pham ('ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846–1912), a great synthesizer of Buddhist doctrine and Nying-ma philosophy. I draw widely from his writings on Yogācāra, Madhyamaka, and tantra to discuss the significance of an ontological “ground” ( gzhi), or Buddha-nature, as the central theme in his overall interpretative scheme. Mi-pham was a prolific writer on a variety of topics, and had a remarkable ability to synthesize diverse strands of thought. The tradition of the Nying-ma is a complex one, and there are many divergent and competing voices that lay claim to the tradition. I will try to present important facets of this central theme in Mi-pham's philosophy of Nying-ma, and show how he uses a dialectic of presence and absence around which he discusses a unified ground.
Mi-pham was a prominent figure in the Tibetan non-sectarian ( ris med) movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He most notably brought esoteric Nying-ma doctrines into conversation with the esoteric scholastic discourses of his day. Mi-pham formulates the Nying-ma tradition of his predecessors Long-then-pa (klong chen rab 'byam, 1308–1364) and Rong-zom (rong zom chos kyi bzang po, ca. 11th c.) in response to traditions of “other-emptiness,” through which he distinguishes his Nying-ma tradition.
Buddha-nature is a theme in Mi-pham's work that has a strong association with tantra in the Nying-ma tradition. His affirmation of the presence of Buddha-nature as intrinsic within the ground of existence shares predominant characteristics of the discourses of tantra in the Nying-ma tradition and, in particular, the Great Perfection (rdzogs chen). The Great Perfection is an antischolastic textual and meditative tradition that consistently evades systematic analysis, and in a fundamental way is antithetical to abstract conceptual determination. Mi-pham creatively formulates the esoteric discourses that have defined the Nying-ma tradition—the Great Perfection and the tantric tradition of the Guhyagarbha—in terms of central esoteric discourses of Buddhism: Buddha-nature, the Middle Way, and Buddhist epistemological systems. This dissertation explores a range of topics within Mi-pham's thought to underscore Buddha-nature and a dialectic of presence and absence as a central thread that runs through his interpretative system. |
ISBN | 0542135957; 9780542135958 |
點閱次數 | 733 |
建檔日期 | 2005.11.25 |
更新日期 | 2022.03.25 |


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