Pruning the Bodhi Tree: the Storm Over Critical Buddhism
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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 vi.