Murasaki’s “Mind Ground”

M. McCormick
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Over the course of its reception history, The Tale of Genji was viewed by many readers and commentators as a Buddhist text relevant to issues of morality and ethics, but also metaphysical questions about the nature of truth, perception of the phenomenal world, and the phenomenal world’s relationship to language. Numerous Genji commentaries promoted the idea that the Tendai Buddhist notion of nonduality formed an underlying structural component of the tale. Writers based this idea on the belief that the Genji’s author, Murasaki Shikibu, had mastered a system of meditation put forth in The Great Calming and Contemplation (Ch. Mohe zhiguan, J. Makashikan) by the sixth-century founder of Tien-t’ai in China, Zhiyi (538–597). This essay examines the commentaries as well as a group of paintings produced alongside them as crucial evidence for the existence of a nascent philosophical theory of the novel. Taking seriously the ideas of historical readers who attempted to understand Genji holistically through the lens of Tendai philosophy may bring us closer to the intellectual foundations of the tale than previously imagined, adding another dimension to our understanding of the relationship between Buddhist philosophy and literature.
紫崎的“心地”
在其接受历史的过程中,《源氏物语》被许多读者和评论家视为与道德和伦理问题有关的佛教文本,但也涉及关于真理本质的形而上学问题,对现象世界的感知,以及现象世界与语言的关系。许多源氏注释都认为,天台佛教的非二元性观念构成了故事的潜在结构成分。作家们认为,《源氏物语》的作者Murasaki Shikibu已经掌握了六世纪中国天坛创始人志毅(538-597)在《大静观》(Ch. Mohe zhiguan, J. Makashikan)中提出的一套冥想体系。这篇文章考察了这些评论以及一组与它们一起产生的绘画,作为小说存在的新生哲学理论的重要证据。认真对待那些试图通过天台哲学整体理解源氏物语的历史读者的观点,可能会让我们比以前想象的更接近这个故事的知识基础,为我们理解佛教哲学与文学之间的关系增加另一个维度。
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