Brook A. Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago.
摘要
Tiantai Buddhism emerged from an idiosyncratic and innovative interpretation of the Lotus Sutra to become one of the most complete, systematic, and influential schools of philosophical thought developed in East Asia. Brook A. Ziporyn puts Tiantai into dialogue with modern philosophical concerns to draw out its implications for ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics. Ziporyn explains Tiantai's unlikely roots, its positions of extreme affirmation and rejection, its religious skepticism and embrace of religious myth, and its view of human consciousness. Ziporyn reveals the profound insights of Tiantai Buddhism while stimulating philosophical reflection on its unexpected effects.
目次
Introduction 1 Letting Suffering Be in Early Buddhism 3 The Two Truths in Pre Tiantai Buddhism 23 Mahāyāna Approaches to Emptiness 37 4 Buddha Nature and Original Enlightenment 54 Introduction to the Lotus Sūtra 68 Highlights of the Lotus Sūtra in Tiantai Context 86 From the Lotus Sūtra to Tiantai 117 The Multiverse as You 143 Experiments with Tiantai Practice 178 10 Tiantai Ethics and the Worst Case Scenario 235 So Far and Yet So Close 273 Notes 287 Bibliography and Suggested Reading 303 Index 309
