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| Buddhism without Buddhists? Academia and Learning to See Buddhism Like a State | ||
| 作者 | Walser, Joseph (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Pacific World: Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies |
| 卷期 | v.3 Series Four |
| 出版日期 | 2022 |
| 頁次 | 103 - 170 |
| 出版者 | Institute of Buddhist Studies |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.shin-ibs.edu/ |
| 出版地 | Berkeley, CA, US [伯克利, 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 |
| 關鍵詞 | Abhidharma; anātman; Buddhist philosophy; Buddhist studies; Dan Arnold; Nāgārjuna; Pudgalavāda |
| 摘要 | Contemporary studies of Buddhist philosophy take on the task of conceptual reconstruction of ancient thinkers by putting philosophers like Nāgārjuna or Dharmakīrti in conversation with philosophers such as Kant or Daniel Dennett. In so doing, they frequently treat “Buddhism,” “Abhidharma,” etc. normatively as a kind of short- hand for a finite set of propositions, i.e., “the doctrine of no-self” or “essentialism,” respectively. This article has four parts. The first discusses the contrast between academic certainty that Buddhism teaches absence of a self and the evidence upon which this assertion is based. The second part brings these discussions to bear on Dan Arnold’s treatments of Nāgārjuna to argue that the cogency of his reconstruction of Nāgārjuna’s arguments is undermined by not being sufficiently grounded in the evidence of historical context. The third part turns to Arnold’s contention that the proper study of religion should be about its doctrines and that these should be evaluated independent of social and political forces. Finally, I will suggest that there are troubling ethical implications to representing Buddhism free of social and historical context insofar as it ends up erasing Buddhists from the picture of “Buddhism.” I turn to a genealogy of the idea that our belief is free to show that the autonomy of belief we find in philosophical studies of Buddhism perpetuates a set of assumptions about Buddhism and religion that have more to do with Western post-Cold War state sensibilities than with the concerns of the ancient authors they purport to explain. |
| 目次 | Abstract 103 On Buddhist studies and whale ears 104 The western schema of Buddhism 115 Normative Buddhism and the study of Nāgārjuna 123 “cardinal doctrines” and historical evidence 124 Why context matters 142 Anti-genealogy 144 Genealogies 155 |
| ISSN | 08973644 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 107 |
| 建檔日期 | 2022.12.23 |
| 更新日期 | 2022.12.23 |
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