Author Affiliation: Independent scholar, Paris, France
關鍵詞
Sinology; historiography; hermeneutics; Chinese Buddhism; Taoism (Daoism)
摘要
“Buddho-Taoism” is a neologism that appeared in Western academic writings during the late nineteen-forties, was put to various uses without ever being consensually defined, enjoyed a brief vogue around the turn of the twenty-first century, and began to fall from grace in recent years. Not only did this neologism implicitly create new epistemic repertoires derived from the names of two presumably known religions. Increasingly loaded with a heterogeneous subtext pertaining to Western-centred representations of the non-European Other, it has become a highly versatile speech unit. By contextualising the appearance of “Buddho-Taoism” and its attested variants in European-language writings and following their semantic evolution, this essay attempts to shed light on some of the problems raised by its retrospective implementation in contemporary Western discourse on China. It also illustrates the power of seduction of trendy terms that academics tend to overuse without careful consideration for their meaning, thereby adding unnecessary problems to the intrinsic difficulties of their primary materials.
目次
Abstract 1059 Prologue: “Taoism” and “(Chinese) Buddhism” 1060 1 Before “Buddho-Taoism” 1063 2 Liebenthal’s coining 1065 3 “Buddho-Taoism” in the field of Buddhist studies 1067 4 Temporal and semantic dislocations, and Zürcher’s influence 1079 5 “Buddho-Taoism” in the field of Taoist studies: Strickmann’s and Seidel’s influence 1073 6 The vogue of “Buddho-Taoism” and its consequences 1076 7 “Buddho-Taoism” in iconography and epigraphy 1080 8 “Buddho-Taoism” from doubts to critiques, then disfavour 1084 Epilogue: “Buddho-Taoism” today 1087 Bibliography 1090
