Transforming Consciousness
Yogacara Thought in Modern China
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 17 April 2014
- ISBN 9780199358137
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages464 pages
- Size 155x234x35 mm
- Weight 601 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Transforming Consciousness develops a wide-ranging and deeply sourced argument that Yogacara Buddhism played a much more important role in the development of modern Chinese thought than has previously been recognized. It shows how key Chinese thinkers used Yogacara Buddhism to make sense of and to change the modern world.
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Transforming Consciousness forces us to rethink the entire project in modern China of the "translation of the West." Taken together, the chapters develop a wide-ranging and deeply sourced argument that Yogacara Buddhism played a much more important role in the development of modern Chinese thought (including philosophy, religion, scientific thinking, social, thought, and more) than has previously been recognized. They show that Yogacara Buddhism enabled key intellectuals of the late Qing and early Republic to understand, accept, modify, and critique central elements of Western social, political, and scientific thought. The chapters cover the entire period of Yogacara's distinct shaping of modern Chinese intellectual movements, from its roots in Meiji Japan through its impact on New Confucianism. If non-Buddhists found Yogacara useful as an indigenous form of logic and scientific thinking, Buddhists found it useful in thinking through the fundamental principles of the Mahayana school, textual criticism, and reforming the canon. This is a crucial intervention into contemporary scholarly understandings of China's twentieth century, and it comes at a moment in which increasing attention is being paid to modern Chinese thought, both in Western scholarship and within China.
This volume offers a wide-ranging and deeply sourced argument that Yogacara Buddhism played a much more important role in the development of modern Chinese thought (including philosophy, religion, scientific thinking, social thought, and more) than previously has been recognized. This is a crucial intervention. Any scholar with an interest in modern China will be greatly informed by this volume, which offers a goldmine of detailed exposition and argument.
Table of Contents:
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
John Makeham, Introduction
Part 1: The Indian and Japanese Roots of Yogacara
1. John Powers, Yogacara: Indian Buddhist Origins
2. John Jorgensen, Indra's Network: Zhang Taiyan's Sino-Japanese Personal Networks and the Rise of Yogacara in Modern China
Part 2: Early Appropriations
3. Scott Pacey, Tan Sitong's Great Unity: Yogacara in An Exposition of Benevolence
4. Viren Murthy, Equality as Reification: Zhang Taiyan's Yogacara Reading of Zhuangzi in the Context of Global Modernity
Part 3: Yogacara and Modern Science
5. Scott Pacey, Taixu, Yogacara, and the Buddhist Approach to Modernity
6. Erik Hammerstrom, Yogacara and Science in the 1920s: The Wuchang School's Approach to Modern Mind Science
Part 4: Yogacara and Confucian Thought
7. Thierry Meynard, Liang Shuming and His Confucianized Version of Yogacara
8. John Makeham, Xiong Shili's Critique of Yogacara Thought in the Context of his Constructive Philosophy
Part 5: The Return to "Genuine Buddhism"
9. Eyal Aviv, Ouyang Jingwu: From Yogacara Scholasticism to Soteriology
10. Dan Lusthaus, Lu Cheng and the Alambana-pariksa: Yogacara, Epistemology and Genuine Buddhism
11. Chen-kuo Lin, The Uncompromising Quest for Genuine Buddhism: Lu Cheng's
Critique of Original Enlightenment
Part 6: Denouement
12. Jason Clower, Chinese Ressentiment and Why New Confucians Stopped Caring About Yogacara
Glossary
Bibliography of Works Cited
Index
