Genealogies of Mahāyāna Buddhism: emptiness, power and the question of origin

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Genealogies of Mahāyāna; 1 Introduction: on origins and genealogies; 2 Mahāyāna in retrospect: from my house to the Dalai Lama (looking back from 2017 to 1930); Assessing the essence; Tibet as Buddhist: tracing the lines of powe...

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Auteur principal: Walser, Joseph (Auteur)
Type de support: Imprimé Livre
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: London New York Routledge 2018
Dans:Année: 2018
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Bouddhisme mahāyāna / Genèse / Histoire
RelBib Classification:BL Bouddhisme
Sujets non-standardisés:B Mahayana Buddhism History
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Résumé:Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Part I Genealogies of Mahāyāna; 1 Introduction: on origins and genealogies; 2 Mahāyāna in retrospect: from my house to the Dalai Lama (looking back from 2017 to 1930); Assessing the essence; Tibet as Buddhist: tracing the lines of power; Emptiness and the analytic of power; Inculcating dispositions to authority: the Kālacakra; 3 Mahāyāna in the republic, Mahāyāna in the empire: tracing "religion" from republican China to the early Qing Dynasty (1920s -- 1723); Religion vs. superstition in 20th-century East Asia
The Fin de Siècle turning pointThe Qing imperium and the usefulness of Mahāyāna; The Yonghegong Temple in Beijing and the political work of monuments; Emperor Qianlong: the tantric initiate and the tantric state; Tantra, emptiness and the reincarnate emperor/lama, or why it's never too late to have a venerable past; Yongzheng emperor and the great Ming debate; 4 The image of emptiness across the landscape of power (China: 11th century BCE -- 15th century CE); The ancestor image; The image of emptiness: Di, space and the celestial pole; The image of the earth and control of the cults
Exorcism and the state: when possession is nine-tenthsReligion in the service of taxation; Buddhist exorcism and the heart of Mahāyāna; Conclusion; 5 Buddha Veda: an Indian genealogy of emptiness (20th century -- sixth century CE); Emptiness and power in Orissa: from Mahima Dharma Sampradāya to Jagannātha of Puri; Buddhism and Brahmanism in Maitrīpa (ca. 1010-1097 CE); Bhāviveka's sixth-century Mahāyāna; Bhāviveka, Mahāyāna and Yogācāra; Bhāviveka, Mahāyāna and Brahmanism; Preliminary conclusion; Part II The genealogy of the Perfection of Wisdom
6 What did the text of the Perfection of Wisdom look like?The versions; The quest for the ur-sūtra; The core pericope; The ending; Subhūti's non-apprehension; The Mindlessness section and its relation to the Irreversibility section; The message of the original Perfection of Wisdom; Mahāyāna; Bodhisattvas; What's missing?; 7 Mahāyāna Sūtra as palimpsest: discerning traces of the Tripiṭaka; Beyond "origin" as mere advent; Heteroglossia and textual rationale; Intertextuality and adaptation in Buddhist literature; The Non-Apprehension section and its intertexts; Sermon on selflessness?
Nominalism?Cessation of cognition; Selflessness … but differently; The perfected as untraceable; Fearlessness; Abhidharma echoes; Conclusion: the perfection of wisdom; 8 Palimpsest II: brahmanical writings on the Tripiṭaka; The importance of incoherence; The context of abhidharma literature?; The context of other schools?; The context of luminous thought and varieties of unaware thought; The context of acitta neither existing nor not existing as anti-Brahmanical dependent-origination; The context of absence of mental construction (avikalpa); Nirvikalpa
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ISBN:1138955558