Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia : Countering the Neo-Confucian Critiques in the Hufa lun and the Yusŏk chirŭi non (Numen Book Series)

Kaplan, Uri

Brill（2019/08発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 274 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004405332

Full Description

While the Neo-Confucian critique of Buddhism is fairly well-known, little attention has been given to the Buddhist reactions to this harangue. The fact is, however, that over a dozen apologetic essays have been written by Buddhists in China, Korea, and Japan in response to the Neo-Confucians. Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia offers an introduction to this Buddhist literary genre. It centers on full translations of two dominant apologetic works-the Hufa lun ( ), written by a Buddhist politician in twelfth-century China, and the Yusok chirui non ( ), authored by an anonymous monk in fifteenth-century Korea. Put together, these two texts demonstrate the wide variety of polemical strategies and the cross-national intertextuality of East Asian Buddhist apologetics.

Contents

ContentsPart 1: Introduction1 Early Chinese Buddhist Polemics2 The Neo-Confucian Critique of Buddhism3 Buddhist Responses to the Neo-Confucians 4 Apologetic Strategies and ThemesPart 2: Translations1 In Defense of the Dharma: Annotated Translation of Zhang Shangying's Hufa lun ( )2 Probing the Doubts and Concerns between Buddhism and Confucianism: Annotated Translation of the Yusok chirui non ( )BibliographyIndex