Evil and/or/as the good
Subtitle: omnicentrism, intersubjectivity and value paradox in Tiantai Buddhist thought
By: Brook Ziporyn.
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;; 51
Publisher: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute; Distributed by Harvard University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 482
Subjects: Zhili, 960-1028.; Tiantai Buddhism -- Doctrines -- History.; Good and evil (Buddhism); Good and evil.
Description: "Brook Ziporyn provides an overview of the development of Tiantai thought from the fifth through the eleventh centuries in China and contributes to our understanding of Chinese intellectual culture and Chinese Buddhism, as well as to basic ontological, epistemological, and axiological concepts. In the conclusion, he looks at these ideas from a wider perspective by teasing out the philosophical and moral implications of Zhili's ideas."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [455]-464) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Introduction: The Question; title: The Problem of Antithetical Values 2/ A Value-Free Universe? i8/; title: Antinomianism? 20; title: 2 Value, Intersubjectivity, and Holism: Philosophical Parameters; title: and the Chinese Background; title: Part I: Holism-Definitions and Distinctions 27; title: The Center 3o/ Intersubjectivity and Chinese Holisms 41/; title: Object as Focus and Field 50/ Implications of Unicentrism,; title: Oligocentrism, and Omnicentrism 55; title: Part II: Value 68; title: Speculative Ground for a General Theory of Value Paradox 69/; title: Inverted Pyramid of Instrumental and Ultimate Values 78/; title: Paradox in Chinese Rhetoric 85/ Applications of Holism in; title: Early Chinese Thought and Their Axiological Consequences 95; title: 3 Value and Anti-value in Indian Buddhism; title: 4 Tiantai Basics: Omnicentric Holism; title: Part I: The Basics 114; title: The Four Teachings and the Three Truths 114/ The Three Tracks 135/; title: The Ten Thusnesses 137/ The Ten Realms 138/ The Transcendental; title: Marvels, Relative and Absolute 140/ Opening the Provisional to Reveal; title: the Real (Transformative Recontextualization) 145/ The Three; title: Thousand Quiddites Inherently Entailed in Each Moment of; title: Experience / Inherent Entailment 159; title: Part II: Transitional Historical Considerations of Later Tiantai 170; title: The Huayan School and "Nature-Origination" 170/ The Suratigama; title: Sutra and the "Pure Mind" of Early Chan 176/ Zhanran's Reassertion; title: of Tiantai 186/ Toward the Shanjia/Shanwai Schism 195; title: 5 Intersubjectivity in the Tiantai Tradition as Understood by Zhili I99; title: Self-praxis as Identical to the Teaching and Transformation of; title: Others 201/ Stimulus and Response (Ganying) 203/ The; title: Pervasiveness of the Intersubjective 208/ The Ultimacy of; title: Intersubjectivity as a Focus of the Shanjia/Shanwai Debate 218; title: 6 Value and Anti-value in Tiantai Thought 240; title: Part I: Good and Evil in Zhiyi and Zhanran 240; title: Value-Paradoxical Consequences of Tiantai Upiya Theory 241/; title: The Moral Benefits of Inherent Evil and Zhiyi's Critique of Anti-; title: nomianism 251/ Zhanran on Inherent Evil and Practiced Good 261; title: Part II: Zhili's Concept of Value Paradox 270; title: The Intersubjective Underpinning of Ineradicable and All-pervading; title: Evil as Identical with the Good 272/ The Ultimacy of the Dung; title: Beetle 295/ Comparison to Zhiyi and Zhanran 306/ Comparison; title: to the Shanwai 312/ Objections and Responses 323/ Zhili's; title: Practice of Evil 329; title: 7 What's So Good About Evil: Conclusions and Implications 344; title: Metaphysical Implications 351/ Episremological Implications 358/; title: Ethical Motivations and Implications 361; title: Notes 387; title: Bibliography 455; title: Glossary 465; title: Index 471.