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| Non-duality in the Teaching of Vimalakīrti | ||
| 作者 | Vihan, Jan (著) |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Dharma Studies: Asian and Transcultural Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.7 n.1 Series Four |
| 出版日期 | 2024.04 |
| 頁次 | 5 - 26 |
| 出版者 | Springer |
| 出版者網址 | https://www.springer.com/gp |
| 出版地 | Berlin, Germany [柏林, 德國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 附註項 | Author Affiliation: Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. |
| 關鍵詞 | Non-duality; Illness; Sameness; Self; Vimalakīrti; Mañjuśrī |
| 摘要 | Even a full realization of the absence of permanent self, a core teaching of Buddhism, does not stop the process by which a subject is imputed and then moves to apprehend objects. Not only is the nature of perception dualistic, the way objects are conceptualized relies on a further round of dualistic discrimination. A key role in the setting up of mutually exclusive categories, such as inner and outer, defilement and purification, and nirvāna and saṃsāra, that underlie conventional perception is played by language. The Teaching of Vimalakīrti aspires to eliminate this illness of misperception by altering the way language is used. Rich in paradox, this early Mahāyāna text deploys the concept of non-duality to offset the mind’s dichotomizing tendencies, testing the limits of both language and perception in the process. While the importance of non-duality for Mahāyāna and its prominence in the Vimalakīrti have been duly noted by numerous scholars and dharma teachers, I have not come across a study that would scrutinize the contexts in which the term first crops up in this sūtra or that would categorize the thirty-two ways of transcending duality suggested in its culminating eighth chapter. Going quotation by quotation, I provide a close reading of relevant passages and at the end break them down into three types. In the process, I also show that Vimalakīrti’s most effective way of countering duality is based on the idea of sameness, or equality, of things which poses certain ethical questions. Finally, my textual analysis leads me to challenge the view prevalent in scholarship on non-duality which takes the term to denote—even in regard to this text—a higher metaphysical reality. |
| ISSN | 25220926 (P); 25220934 (E) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s42240-023-00155-8 |
| 點閱次數 | 61 |
| 建檔日期 | 2024.07.15 |
| 更新日期 | 2024.07.18 |
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