Toward a New Image of Paramartha
Subtitle: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha Buddhism Revisited
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2022
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781350303904
Description: Yogacara and Tathagatagarbha are often regarded as antagonistic Indian Buddhist  traditions. Paramartha (499-569) is traditionally credited with amalgamating these  philosophies by translating one of the most influential Tathagatagarbha texts in  East Asia, the Awakening of Faith in Mahayana, and introducing Tathagatagarbha notions into his translations of Yogacara texts. Engaging with the digitalized Chinese Buddhist canon, Ching Keng draws on clues  from a long-lost Dunhuang fragment and considers its striking similarities with  Paramartha's corpus with respect to terminology, style of phrasing, and doctrines.  In this cutting-edge interpretation of the concept of jiexing, Keng demystifies the  image of Paramartha and makes the case that the fragment  holds the key to recover his original teachings..