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Nagarjuna's Emptiness and Paul Tillich's God: A Comparative Study for the Dialogue between Christianity and Buddhism |
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| 作者 |
Ryu, Kee-chong
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| 出版日期 | 1984 |
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| 頁次 | 234 |
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| 出版者 | Drew University |
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| 出版者網址 |
https://www.drew.edu/
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| 出版地 | Madison, NJ, US [麥迪遜, 紐澤西州, 美國] |
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| 資料類型 | 博碩士論文=Thesis and Dissertation |
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| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
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| 學位類別 | 博士 |
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| 校院名稱 | Drew University |
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| 畢業年度 | 1984 |
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| 關鍵詞 | 龍樹=Nagarjuna=kLu-sgrub; 佛教與基督教及天主教=Buddhism and Christianity and Catholicism |
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| 摘要 | It may be said that Christianity represents the Western Culture (or religion), while Buddhism represents the Eastern Culture (or religion). The ultimate is understood by Buddhists to be Emptiness and by Christians to be God. Nagarjuna (100?-200? A.D.), who was the founder of the Madhyamika School and the systematizer of the doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism, has been considered to be one of the greatest thinkers of India, and his philosophy the central philosophy of Buddhism. According to him, Emptiness (Sunyata) is not just a nonbeing or nothingness, but beyond being and nonbeing. That is to say, Sunyata is neither being or nonbeing, nor both being and nonbeing at the same time, nor neither being nor nonbeing. And his notion of Sunyata can be more clearly explained by the term Suchness (tathata) which is ultimately Real and is beyond all descriptions and distinctions. Accordingly, for Nagarjuna, Sunyata as Suchness points to the Absolute (or Ultimate Reality) which is inexpressible, inconceivable, and unspeakable, because it is devoid of any designation.On the other hand, Paul Tillich, who was a pioneer in dialogue with the world religions, has defined God as Being-itself (esse ipsum) or the ground of being. By this definition, he seeks to prohibit any tendency of making God into a conditioned being. For Tillich, God as Being-itself is beyond essence and existence, subject and object, and finitude and infinity. Thus, God, as Being-itself, infinitely transcends everything that is, even though everything that is is grounded on God. And Tillich's idea of the God above God, which may have been influenced by Christian mysticism, points to the Absolute which is inexpressible, unnameable, indescribable, i.e., ineffable.In this respect, it appears that there are close similarities, or common elements, between Nagarjuna's notion of Emptiness and Tillich's idea of God as Being-itself, because they both signify the Absolute or Ultimate Reality. This point may be the most important element or ground for the dialogue between Christianity and Buddhism, and between the West and the East.
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| 點閱次數 | 271 |
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| 建檔日期 | 1998.04.28 |
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| 更新日期 | 2016.04.22 |
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