Contents
Introduction by Jamie HUBBARD ...... vii List of Contributors ...... xxiii Source Credits...... xxvii Bibliographic and Linguistic Conventions ...... xxixi
PART ONE The What and Why of Critical Buddhism
Paul L. SWANSON Why They Say Zen Is Not Buddhism: Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature . . . . 3
Dan LUSTHAUS Critical Buddhism and Returning to the Sources ...... 30
HAKAMAYA Noriaki Critical Philosophy versus Topical Philosophy . . . 56
Jamie HUBBARD Topophobia ...... 81
HAKAMAYA Noriaki Scholarship as Criticism ...... 113
Paul J. GRIFFITHS The Limits of Criticism ...... 145
MATSUMOTO Shirõ Comments on Critical Buddhism ...... 161
PART TWO In Search of True Buddhism
MATSUMOTO Shirõ The Doctrine of Tath„gata-garbha Is Not Buddhist ...... 165
Sallie B. KING The Doctrine of Buddha-Nature Is Impeccably Buddhist ...... 174
YAMABE Nobuyoshi The Idea of Dh„tu-v„da in Yogacara and Tath„gata-garbha Texts ...... 193
MATSUMOTO Shirõ & A Critical Exchange on the YAMABE Nobuyoshi Idea of Dh„tu-v„da ...... 205
v YAMAGUCHI Zuihõ The Core Elements of Indian Buddhism Introduced into Tibet: A Contrast with Japanese Buddhism . . 220
MATSUMOTO Shirõ The Meaning of “Zen” ...... 242
Steven HEINE Critical Buddhism and Dõgen’s Shõbõgenzõ: The Debate over the 75-Fascicle and 12-Fascicle Texts ...... 251
Peter N. GREGORY Is Critical Buddhism Really Critical? ...... 286
LIN Chen-kuo Metaphysics, Suffering, and Liberation: The Debate between Two Buddhisms ...... 298
TAKASAKI Jikidõ Thoughts on Dh„tu-v„da and Recent Trends in Buddhist Studies ...... 314
SUEKI Fumihiko A Reexamination of Critical Buddhism ...... 321
PART THREE
Social Criticism
HAKAMAYA Noriaki Thoughts on the Ideological Background of Social Discrimination ...... 339
MATSUMOTO Shirõ Buddhism and the Kami: Against Japanism . . . . 356
Ruben L. F. HABITO Tendai Hongaku Doctrine and Japan’s Ethnocentric Turn ...... 374
MATSUMOTO Shirõ The Lotus Sutra and Japanese Culture ...... 388
Notes ...... 407 Bibliography ...... 491 Index ...... 501
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