The Great Death and the Pure Land: Nishitani Keiji and the Ecological Emergency

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J. Wirth
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Abstract:This essay argues for the importance of Nishitani Keiji’s thought as a critical resource to confront what the unfolding ecological crisis reveals about who and what we are. The first part considers the importance of “nature” for Nishitani that accords with insights that both resonate with his Zen practice and heritage, and which open up tacit dimensions of the Jōdo Shin (True Pure Land) tradition. The second section turns to Nishitani’s highly original Zen “existentialization” of science in general, and by extension, contemporary climate science in particular, in order to highlight Nishitani’s Great Death as a response to the unfolding ecological catastrophe. In treating climate science as a kōan, we not only come to see who we are, but also come undone and awaken to a new relation to the Great Earth.
大死亡与净土:西谷敬二与生态危机
摘要:本文论证了西谷敬二的思想作为一种关键资源的重要性,它可以帮助我们面对不断发展的生态危机所揭示的关于我们是谁和我们是什么的问题。第一部分考虑了“自然”对西谷的重要性,这与他的禅宗实践和遗产产生共鸣的见解一致,并开辟了Jōdo真净土传统的隐含维度。第二部分转向西谷对科学的高度原创的禅宗“存在化”,通过扩展,特别是当代气候科学,以突出西谷的大死亡是对正在展开的生态灾难的回应。在将气候科学视为kōan的过程中,我们不仅看到了我们是谁,而且还意识到我们与地球的新关系。
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