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

Paul L. SWANSON Why They Say Is Not Buddhism: Recent Japanese Critiques of Buddha-Nature . . . . 3

Dan LUSTHAUS Critical Buddhism and Returning to the Sources ...... 30

HAKAMAYA Noriaki Critical 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 ...... 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 Doctrine and Japan’s Ethnocentric Turn ...... 374

MATSUMOTO Shirõ The Lotus and Japanese Culture ...... 388

Notes ...... 407 Bibliography ...... 491 Index ...... 501

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