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WRIGHT, DALE STUART.

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EMPTINESS AND PARADOX IN THE THOUGHT OF FA-TSANG.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	EMPTINESS AND PARADOX IN THE THOUGHT OF FA-TSANG./
Author:	WRIGHT, DALE STUART.
Description:	238 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-04, Section: A, page: 1653.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International41-04A.
Subject:	Religion, Philosophy of. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8022090

EMPTINESS AND PARADOX IN THE THOUGHT OF FA-TSANG.
WRIGHT, DALE STUART.

EMPTINESS AND PARADOX IN THE THOUGHT OF FA-TSANG. - 238 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 41-04, Section: A, page: 1653.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Iowa, 1980.

This study consists of an analysis and interpretation of the doctrine of emptiness and the paradoxical assertions which derive from that doctrine in selected writings of Fa-tsang (643-712), the third patriarch of the Hua-yen school of Chinese Buddhism. The methods employed in this project are derived from the hermeneutical theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017774
Religion, Philosophy of.

EMPTINESS AND PARADOX IN THE THOUGHT OF FA-TSANG.
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520 $a This study consists of an analysis and interpretation of the doctrine of emptiness and the paradoxical assertions which derive from that doctrine in selected writings of Fa-tsang (643-712), the third patriarch of the Hua-yen school of Chinese Buddhism. The methods employed in this project are derived from the hermeneutical theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
520 $a The analysis of the symbol k'ung (emptiness) yields three distinct senses of that term. (1) When k'ung is predicated of the subject of a sentence, it means that the subject is "empty," i.e., that it has originated dependently and, therefore, lacks "self-nature." (2) In a nominal position in the syntax of a sentence k'ung refers to the sudden and overpowering experience of "emptiness" in which all familiar structures and forms of experience are abolished. (3) The third sense of k'ung is generally expressed as "true emptiness" (chen-k'ung). True emptiness is an awareness of form and emptiness in which the unconditioned truth of emptiness is manifest in and through conditioned forms. This sense of emptiness is, for Fa-tsang, a corrective of dualistic tendencies in Buddhist thought and a more adequate formulation of ultimate truth (chen-t'i).
520 $a The thesis attempts to clarify the analysis of emptiness by showing how that doctrine is formulated in three distinct contexts. First, in a discussion of the concepts li (principle) and shih (phenomenon), an interpretation of the symbolic dimension of emptiness is given. Second, a description of the important cosmological understanding in Fa-tsang's texts is given in order to clarify how emptiness is expressed in that domain of thought. Third, a discussion of Fa-tsang's interpretation of the One Mind in the Awakening of Faith shows how Fa-tsang creatively employed that doctrine to confirm his understanding of "true emptiness."
520 $a The final chapter of this study concerns Fa-tsang's frequent use of paradoxical language. The analysis of paradoxical assertions in the texts yields three distinct types of paradox, each deriving from the doctrine of emptiness in a unique way. Finally, an interpretation of the significance of these paradoxical assertions is given which centers on the following points. (1) Paradox is employed in the texts as the most adequate manner of expressing "ultimate truth." (2) Paradox is interpreted to be both the form of the appearance of ultimate truth (objectively), and the form of the reception of ultimate truth (subjectively). (3) This thesis maintains that paradoxical formulations of truth function to evoke the religious awareness from which they originally derive. In this respect Fa-tsang's paradoxical assertions are compared to the use of the kung'an (koan) in the Ch'an (Zen) school. (4) The efficacy of this function of paradox is interpreted to be based on the element of self-negation present in paradoxical statements. In thinking a paradoxical thought (a thought which simultaneously contradicts itself), one opens oneself through thought to that which lies beyond the domain of thought. This openness is seen to be the occasion for the sudden manifestation of the ultimate truth of "emptiness."
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