Gereon Kopf received his Ph.D. from Temple University and is currently professor of East Asian religions and philosophy of religion as well as the chair of the religion department at Luther College. He is also an adjunct professor of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Iceland. As a research fellow of the Japan Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, he conducted research in 1993 and 1994 at Ōbirin University in Machida, Japan, and at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya, Japan, from 2002 to 2004. In the academic year of 2008-2009, he taught at the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong. 2013-2014, he was a visiting lecturer at Saitama University and a Visiting researcher at Tōyō University. He is the author of Beyond Personal Identity (2001), the co-editor of Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (2009) and the editor of the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. He also contributes a series of essays on Japanese Buddhism to buddhistdoor.net. He is currently developing a non-essentialist philosophy of mind and an ethics based on a non-essentialist conception of identity formation.
摘要
The volume introduces the central themes in and the main figures of Japanese Buddhist philosophy. It will have two sections, one that discusses general topics relevant to Japanese Buddhist philosophy and one that reads the work of the main Japanese Buddhist philosophers in the context of comparative philosophy. It combines basic information with cutting edge scholarship considering recent publications in Japanese, Chinese, English, and other European languages. As such, it will be an invaluable tool for professors teaching courses in Asian and global philosophy, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the people generally interested in philosophy and/or Buddhism.
目次
Front Matter i-xiii
Basic Issues in Japanese Buddhist Philosophy Front Matter 1-1 “Japanese Buddhism”: Constructions and Deconstructions / Richard K. Payne 3-51 The “Philosophy” in Japanese Buddhist Philosophy / John C. Maraldo 53-69 One Step Towards Buddhism as Philosophy / Makio Takemura 71-81 Japanese Buddhism and Women: The Lotus, Amida, and Awakening / Michiko Yusa 83-133 Buddhist Philosophy and the Japanese Cultural System / Rein Raud 135-154 The Philosophical Reception of Japanese Buddhism After 1868 / Ralf Müller 155-203 Interaction Between Japanese Buddhism and Confucianism / Tomomi Asakura 205-234 The Philosophy of the Mandala / Pamela D. Winfield 235-253 Carrying Buddha into the Streets: Buddhist Socialist Thought in Modern Japan / James Mark Shields 255-285 Salvation and Violence in Japanese Buddhism: The Case of Aum Shinrikyō / Manabu Watanabe 287-304
Individual Philosophers in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition Front Matter 305-305 Saichō: Founding Patriarch of Japanese Buddhism / Victor Forte 307-335 Kūkai’s Shingon Philosophy: Embodiment / David L. Gardiner 337-345 Jōkei / James L. Ford 347-360 Hōnen / Mark L. Blum 361-379 Zen Master Dōgen: Philosopher and Poet of Impermanence / Steven Heine 381-405 Keizan Jōkin and His Thought / Shūdō Ishii 407-413 How to Read Shinran / Dennis Hirota 415-449
Individual Philosophers in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition Lotus Land in This Very Body: The Religious Philosophy of Nichiren / Ruben L. F. Habito 451-470 Born into a World of Turmoil: The Biography and Thought of Chūgan Engetsu / Steffen Döll 471-486 Ikkyū Sōjun / Andrew K. Whitehead 487-501 Bankei / Enshō Kobayashi 503-509 Hakuin / Juhn Y. Ahn 511-535 The Religious Philosophy of Kiyozawa Manshi / Robert F. Rhodes 537-563 Inoue Enryō’s Philosophy of Buddhism / Rainer Schulzer 565-573 Nishida Kitarō as Buddhist Philosopher: Self-Cultivation, a Theory of the Body, and the Religious Worldview / Mayuko Uehara 575-588 D. T. Suzuki and the “Logic of Sokuhi,” or the “Logic of Prajñāpāramitā” / Michiko Yusa 589-616 Hiratsuka Raichō: Feminism and Androgynous Sexuality / Saeko Kimura 617-633 Hisamatsu Shin’ichi: Oriental Nothingness / André van der Braak 635-647 Nishitani Keiji: Nihilism, Buddhism, Anontology / John W. M. Krummel 649-679 Nakamura Hajime / Toshi’ichi Endo 681-691 On the Buddhist Thought of Tamaki Kōshirō / Makio Takemura 693-711 Expressing Experience: Language in Ueda Shizuteru’s Philosophy of Zen / Bret W. Davis 713-738
