{"title":"The Cessation of Sensory Experience and Prajñāpāramitā Philosophy","authors":"Jayarava Attwood","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2022.06.32.1.111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2022.06.32.1.111","url":null,"abstract":"Received traditions of Prajñāpāramitā interpretation embrace a hermeneutic in which truth and falsehood are one and the same. This philosophy has deep roots in Indian Buddhism, and it gained prominence in Europe and her colonies through the writings of D. T. Suzuki and his devotee, Edward Conze. It is relatively easy to show that the “contradictions” that form the main axiom of their reading are the result of misunderstanding the texts they relied on. Having done this I discuss a new way of understanding Prajñāpāramitā which shifts the emphasis towards an epistemological reading along the lines of Sue Hamilton’s epistemic approach to Pāli texts. I show how Prajñāpāramitā makes sense in relation to a particular type of meditation practice that aimed to bring about the cessation of sensory experience leaving the meditator in a state of contentless awareness which early Buddhists called suññatāvihāra , “dwelling in [the] absence [of sensory experience] .”","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47064181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting Grounds: A Comparison of the Notion of the Ground (gzhi) in the Tibetan Great Perfection Tradition with the Idea of the Unconscious in the Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung","authors":"Manuel Lopez","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2022.06.32.1.149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2022.06.32.1.149","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42410136","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mandala Hermeneutics and the Source-Trace Theory in Early Medieval Japanese Esoteric Buddhism","authors":"Matthew S. McMullen","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45894445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uri Kaplan, Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia: Countering the Neo-Confucian Critiques in the Hufa lun and the Yusŏk chirŭi non. Leiden: Brill, 2019. 282 pp. (ISBN-13: 978-9004405332)","authors":"Sung-EunThomas Kim","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.173","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45371746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Genres of Buddhist Commentarial Literature in Medieval China","authors":"Li Silong","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.59","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.59","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49074094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“East Asia as a Method of Research,” Illustrated by an Interpretation of Japanese Edo-Period Haiku by a Western Art Historian","authors":"Shimoda Masahiro","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42464609","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Moving Feast: Reading into the Fragrant Chapter of the Vimalakīrtinirdeśa","authors":"Zhao You","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.79","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.79","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42886726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Reflections on Abiding-Places in the Perfection of Wisdom in Eight Thousand Lines","authors":"Tsai Yao-ming","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.29","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.29","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the real abiding of the mind-body complex demonstrated in the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā with an emphasis on how Buddhist teachings explore the notion of abiding-places or temporary residences in one lifetime. The key findings of this article can be summarized in the following key points. First, any abiding-place enduring for long lifespans, including those temporary residences in one lifetime, are impermanent and devoid of own-being. Second, in terms of an abiding-place per se, none of the abiding-place is qualified to be real abiding-place for the mind-body complex due to the lack of own-being. Third, the misconception that the mind-body complex can permanently settle in a fixed abiding-place not only leads to emotional fluctuations, but also lays a preposterous emphasis on environmental surroundings. Fourth, bodhisattvas cultivate prajñāpāramitā so their mind-body complexes can abide rightly. Fifth, bodhisattvas channel sentient beings to the real abiding of the mind-body complex through helping sentient beings relieve suffering and abide in any of the Three Paths of cultivation, i.e., śrāvakayāna, pratyekabuddhayāna, and bodhisattvayāna.","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47428616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Way Toward Mind Deliverance, or Higher: The Brahmavihāras as Depicted in the Northern Āgamas and Their Implications for the Emergence of the Bodhisattva Path","authors":"Juyan Zhang","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.12.31.2.129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41316926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Some Curious Cases Where the Buddha Did Not Make a Rule: Palliative Care, Assisted Suicide, and Abortion in an Indian Buddhist Monastic Law Code","authors":"Shayne Clarke","doi":"10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.16893/ijbtc.2021.06.30.1.13","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines a series of six curious narratives that appear in the section dealing with the third pārājika, the rule addressing monastic involvement in various acts of homicide (including abortion), in the Bhikṣu-vibhaṅga of the Mūlasarvāstivādavinaya. These tales purport to record the Buddha’s legislative reaction to (1) an offhand remark made to a seriously ill monk by his brother-in-the-dharma in response to which the sick monk foolishly and fatally consumed poison, (2) a monk under whose care a gravely ill monk convinced his co-religionist’s nephews to cut off his head in order to put an end to his suffering, (3–4) two monks who hope to receive the possessions of dying monks, (5) the famous arhat Upasena’s consent to a former doctor’s offer of an abortive preparation for his brother’s wife whom he got pregnant before becoming a monk, and (6) an ill father who decides to trick his female servant into squeezing the very life out of him after his son, a monk, tells him that as a lay Buddhist he will be reborn in a good destiny. What is curious about these stories, all delivered before the formal establishment of the third pārājika, is that at the end of each tale, the Buddha is said not to have established a rule-of-training. These tales thus run counter to the general function of narratives that precede the formal promulgation of Prātimokṣa rules in the extant vibhaṅgas. This paper seeks to throw light on the role of these curious stories.","PeriodicalId":40843,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47493382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}