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What Can't be Said

Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought

By: Yasuo Deguchi,Jay L. Garfield,Graham Priest,Robert H. Sharf

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What Can't be Said

Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought

By: Yasuo Deguchi,Jay L. Garfield,Graham Priest,Robert H. Sharf

Typically, in the Western philosophical tradition, the presence of paradox and contradictions is taken to signal the failure or refutation of a theory or line of thinking. This aversion to paradox rests on the commitment-whether implicit or explicit-to the view that reality must be consistent. In What Can't be Said, Yasuo Deguchi, Jay L. Garfield, Graham Priest, and Robert H. Sharf extend their earlier arguments that the discovery of paradox and contradiction can deepen rather than disprove a philosophical position, and confirm these ideas in the context of East Asian philosophy. They claim that, unlike most Western philosophers, many East Asian philosophers embraced paradox, and provide textual evidence for this claim. Examining two classical Daoist texts, the Daodejing and the Zhaungzi, as well as the trajectory of Buddhism in East Asia, including works from the Sanlun, Tiantai, Chan, and Zen traditions and culminating with the Kyoto school of philosophy, they argue that these philosophers' commitment to paradox reflects an understanding of reality as inherently paradoxical, revealing significant philosophical insights.

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Oxford University Press

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0197526209

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9780197526200

Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism

A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise

By: Robert H. Sharf

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Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism

A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise

By: Robert H. Sharf

The issue of sinification—the manner and extent to which Buddhism and Chinese culture were transformed through their mutual encounter and dialogue—has dominated the study of Chinese Buddhism for much of the past century. Robert Sharf opens this important and far-reaching book by raising a host of historical and hermeneutical problems with the encounter paradigm and the master narrative on which it is based. Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism is, among other things, an extended reflection on the theoretical foundations and conceptual categories that undergird the study of medieval Chinese Buddhism. Sharf draws his argument in part from a meticulous historical, philological, and philosophical analysis of the Treasure Store Treatise (Pao-tsang lun), an eighth-century Buddho-Taoist work apocryphally attributed to the fifth-century master Seng-chao (374–414). In the process of coming to terms with this recondite text, Sharf ventures into all manner of subjects bearing on our understanding of medieval Chinese Buddhism, from the evolution of T’ang "gentry Taoism" to the pivotal role of image veneration and the problematic status of Chinese Tantra. The volume includes a complete annotated translation of the Treasure Store Treatise, accompanied by the detailed exegesis of dozens of key terms and concepts.

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420

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824830288

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9780824830281

Living Images

Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context

By: Robert H. Sharf,Elizabeth Horton Sharf

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Living Images

Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context

By: Robert H. Sharf,Elizabeth Horton Sharf

The essays in this volume focus on the historical, institutional, and ritual context of a number of Japanese Buddhist paintings, sculptures, calligraphies, and relics?some celebrated, others long overlooked.

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308

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Stanford University Press

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0804739897

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9780804739894

Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism

A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise

By: Robert H. Sharf

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A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise

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0824861949

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9780824861940

What Can't be Said

Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought

By: Yasuo Deguchi,Jay L. Garfield,Graham Priest,Robert H. Sharf

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Paradox and Contradiction in East Asian Thought

By: Yasuo Deguchi,Jay L. Garfield,Graham Priest,Robert H. Sharf

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