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| An Inquiry into the Zen Koan of “The Storehouse of the Eye of the Right Dharma” — the Spirit of Hsi Lai (Coming from the West) | ||
| 作者 | Won, Hsiung |
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| 出處題名 | Hsi Lai Journal of Humanistic Buddhism=西來人間佛教學報 |
| 卷期 | v.5 |
| 出版日期 | 2004 |
| 頁次 | 295 - 300 |
| 出版者 | International Academy of Buddhism, University of the West |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.uwest.edu/site/ |
| 出版地 | Rosemead, CA, US [柔似蜜, 加利福尼亞州, 美國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | This paper is concerned with the koan about Buddha Shakyamuni holding a flower, to which Maha-Kashapa smiled, thereby obtaining the Eye of the Right Dharma and receiving the transmission of the Buddha mind. Much recent scholarship has attempted to prove through existing documents that this koan never occurred. In this paper, while arguing that the existing documents cannot provide any definitive proof one way or the other, I try to make inferences in another direction, relying on such scriptures as the Agamas and the Mahaparinirvana Sutra and judging by the Mahayana guiding principle of “ One Reality"" and the principle of ""relying on the spirit, not the letter"" in the ""Four Reliances"": My argument can be boiled down to the statement that ample scriptural evidence can indeed be unearthed concerning the World-Honored One's direct transmission of the Dharma from mind to mind, ( so that it does not really matter even if “the flower sermon” incident had not happened historically). |
| ISSN | 15304108 (P) |
| 點閱次數 | 105 |
| 建檔日期 | 2014.08.08 |
| 更新日期 | 2018.04.13 |
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