Bret W. Davis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University Maryland. He received his PhD in philosophy from Vanderbilt University and has spent 13 years studying and teaching in Japan, during which time he studied Buddhist thought at Otani University and completed the coursework for a second PhD in Japanese philosophy at Kyoto University. He has been a JSPS Postdoctoral Research Fellow and later Visiting Scholar at Kyoto University, and a DAAD Visiting Scholar at the University of Freiburg. He is the author of Heidegger and the Will: On the Way to Gelassenheit (Northwestern University Press, 2007); translator of Martin Heidegger's Country Path Conversations (Indiana University Press, 2010); editor of Martin Heidegger: Key Concepts (Acumen, 2010); co-editor with Brian Schroeder and Jason M. Wirth of Japanese and Continental Philosophy: Conversations with the Kyoto School (Indiana University Press, 2011); and co-editor with Fujita Masakatsu of Sekai no naka no Nihon no tetsugaku [Japanese Philosophy in the World] (Showado, 2005). His many articles written in English and in Japanese on continental, Japanese, East Asian Buddhist, and comparative philosophy include “Zen after Zarathustra” in Journal of Nietzsche Studies, “The Kyoto School” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and two chapters on Japanese philosophy in The Oxford Handbook of World Philosophy. He is a head editor of Indiana University Press's series in World Philosophies. Among his current projects are two monographs on Zen and the Kyoto School and The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Philosophy. For more information, see http://www.loyola.edu/academics/philosophy/faculty/davis.html. Address: Department of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland, 4501 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21210 USA. E-mail:
關鍵詞
Buddhist Doctrines; Zen Buddhism; Shin Buddhists; Buddha (The Concept); Buddhism & Culture
摘要
This article seeks to clarify the fundamental similarities and differences between the two most prominent forms of Buddhism in Japan: Zen and Shin (or True Pure Land School) Buddhism. While proponents of Zen typically criticize Shin for seeking the Buddha outside the self, rather than as one's ‘true self’ or ‘original face’, proponents of Shin typically criticize Zen for relying of ‘self-power’, which they understand as inevitably a form of ‘ego-power’, rather than entrusting oneself to the ‘Other-power’ of Amida Buddha. Yet Zen and Shin in fact share some deep commonalities: not only do they both characterize the ultimate ‘Dharma-body’ of the Buddha as ‘emptiness’ or ‘formlessness’, they also both speak of the enlightened state issuing from a realization of this Dharma-body in terms of ‘naturalness’. While attending to the significant differences between the Zen and Shin approaches to this enlightened state of naturalness, this article also pursues the most radical indications of both schools which suggest that this naturalness itself ultimately lies before and beyond both self- and Other-power.
目次
Shinran’s path through Other-power to naturalness 435 The paradox of an absolute Other-power 437 Beyond self- and Other-power in Zen and Shin 439 Zen’s true self and self-forgetting 440 The persistence of a provisional Other-power in Shin 442 Notes 443 References 445
