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Mea Maxima Vikalpa: Repentance, Meditation, and the Dynamics of Liberation in Medieval Chinese Buddhism, 500–650 CE |
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| 作者 |
Williams, Bruce Charles (著)
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| 出處題名 |
Dissertation Abstracts International
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| 卷期 | v.63 n.9 Section A |
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| 出版日期 | 2002 |
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| 出版者 | ProQuest LLC |
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| 出版者網址 |
https://www.proquest.com/
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| 出版地 | Ann Arbor, MI, US [安娜堡, 密西根州, 美國] |
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| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
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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 | University of California, Berkeley |
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| 系所名稱 | Buddhist Studies |
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| 指導教授 | Berger, Patricia; Lai, Whalen |
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| 畢業年度 | 2002 |
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| 附註項 | 274p |
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| 關鍵詞 | Repentence; Confession; vikalpa; medieval Chinese Buddhism; Meditation; Liberation |
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| 摘要 | This thesis investigates how repentance rituals developed from being standard rituals of purification into being soteriologically sufficient practices for the attainment of Buddhahood and why this became problematic for certain Chinese Buddhists during the late Six Dynasties period. These rituals were then integrated with meditative rituals into an overarching meditative paradigm, first in northern China and slightly later in the south. Buddhist discourses that then accepted, rejected, or modified this paradigm not only allow us to map regional varieties of Buddhist practice, but such discourses also affected the course of ritual and doctrinal debate, and even lineage formation, through the Tang, and into the Song, dynasty.
To investigate the soteriological dimension of Buddhist repentance rituals and the regional varieties of Buddhism in Medieval China new methodological approaches for the study of Buddhist discourse and practice were necessary. First, repentance rituals were investigated in terms of performance and (Austinian) performativity. Second, in order to uncover regional varieties of Buddhism and Buddhist discourse, we expand upon Antonio Gramsci's idea that discourses are constructed over a specific terrain.
By investigating the ritual and meditative use of repentance rituals in sixth century China this thesis makes significant contributions in several areas. First, the use of performance and performativity may be appropriate for investigating not only Chinese ritual texts, but also for analyzing Chinese literary and philosophical texts. Second, the use of repentance rituals allows us to differentiate different types of Buddhist practice by region. Third, by reconstructing certain regional forms of Buddhist meditative and liturgical practice we can begin to recover a lost chapter from the history of Chinese Buddhism. In northeastern China, reconstructing the practices of the Ten Stages lineage permits us to see the centrality of this lineage in the development of sixth and seventh century Buddhist practice and doctrine. It may be the missing hub that allows us to connect such movements as Yogācāra (she lun), the Three Stages teaching, and early Huayan. Finally, in sixth century northeastern China (and in the southeast as well) the practice of repentance rituals developed into soteriologically sufficient techniques for the attainment of Buddhahood; attempts to resolve this issue through the 13th century were not entirely successful. |
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| 目次 | Introduction iii
Acknowledgements vi
Chapter 1: Prologue I
Repentance - Thoughts toward an Anatomy of Disinterest 7
Chapter 2: Repentance and Confession - Some Thematic Issues 17
1. Doctrinally 17
2. Textually 29
3. Ritually 57
4. Socially 66
Chapter 3: Issues and Methods at the Intersection of Text, Image,
and Practices - Performance and Performativity 80
1. The Epistemological Impulse 83
2. Performativity 85
3. Text in Performance, Text as Practice 89
4. Image and/as Presence 95
5. Repentance in Performance 100
6. Text, Practice, and the Anxiety of Performativity 103
Chapter 4: Early Sixth Century Chinese Buddhism in the Northeast, the Ten Stages Lineages, and the Introduction of a New Style of Buddhism 106
The Biography of Lingyu (518-605) 112
Chapter 5: Repentance as Meditation - Towards a Reconstruction of Ten Stages Practice 119
1. The Ritual 119
2. The Visualization 131
3. A Doctrinal Point or Two 146
4. Purification or Soteriology 152
Chapter 6: “Buddha Names in Seven Registers”: Abridged, Unabridged, and Multi-limbed 159
1.1. “Buddha Names in Seven Registers”: The Unabridged Version 161
1.1 A. A Brief Interlude: Some Late Sixth to Early Seventh Century Sites in Northeastern China Associated with Lingyu and His School 174
1.2. Repentance Rituals Closely Related to the “Buddha Names in Seven Registers” 178
2. The Five Limbed Repentance 186
3. Rosters of Buddhas, Buddha Name Sutras and Daoist Registers 192
Chapter 7: Matters of Context 197
1. A Modest Proposal 197
2. “Buddha Names in Seven Registers” and the Tiantai Fourfold Samadhi System
3. Buddha Visualization and the “New Buddhism” of the Late Sixth and Early Seventh Century, the Case of Zhiyan 215
Chapter 8: Conclusion 221
Selected Bibliography 235
Primary Sources 236
Chinese and Japanese Sources 238
Western Language Sources 252 |
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| ISBN | 0493825401; 9780493825403 |
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| 點閱次數 | 424 |
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| 建檔日期 | 2003.09.05
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| 更新日期 | 2022.03.31 |
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