التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Prolegomenon for Fazang's Essay on the Golden Lion. |
| المؤلفون: |
Jones, Nicholaos1 nick.jones@uah.edu |
| المصدر: |
British Journal for the History of Philosophy. Jan2025, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p48-63. 16p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*HUA yan Buddhism, *EMPTINESS (Philosophy), *ILLUSION (Philosophy), *METAPHOR, *ENGLISH language |
| مستخلص: |
Fazang is a seminal figure for the tradition of Huayan Buddhism. Essay on the Golden Lion is the most widely translated into English of his writings. Yet systematic English-language scholarship on Fazang's Essay is relatively sparse. Scholars agree that the central focus of the Essay is the relation between principle and thing — a relation akin to the one between emptiness and form and, according to Fazang, also akin to the relation between the golden substance of a lion statue and the statue itself. Scholars disagree about what principle is. They also disagree about how Fazang conceptualizes the relation between principle and thing. This paper develops a novel interpretation for Fazang's conception of the principle-thing relation. The methodology involves situating Fazang's metaphor of the golden lion in relation to prior efforts, by Chinese Buddhists, to conceptualize the emptiness-form relation and using theoretical considerations, from some of Fazang's other writings, to interpret various remarks Fazang makes about his metaphor of the golden lion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
Academic Search Index |