The Center for Buddhist Studies is pleased to announce that the newest issue of the Fo Guang Journal of Buddhist Studies, Volume 8, Number 2, was published in July 2022.
Yoo Boo-hyun examines the compositional relationships among the scriptures recorded in the Northern Song Kaibao Canon, the Jin Zhaocheng Canon, the First Goryeo Canon, and the Second Goryeo Canon. Through a detailed comparison and explanation of the base texts, woodblock carvings, and quantity of scriptures in these editions, this paper provides more reliable research results for the study of Chinese Buddhist Canon versions.
Thierry Meynard analyzes the content of assignments from sixteen students preserved from a Nanjing Catholic school in the early Qing dynasty. He explores the Catholic Church's strategy at the time of adopting Confucian classics to refute Buddhism and folk religion. Through these assignments, he discovers that when discussing the issue of "fasting" (vegetarianism/abstinence), students transformed Confucian classics into the ultimate authority for distinguishing between Buddhist and Catholic fasting practices, indicating that this strategy was accepted at the time.
Brewster, Ernest B analyzes the Treatise on the Nature of Good and Evil (Xingshan'e lun) written by the Ming dynasty monk Youxi Chuandeng (1554–1628). The author outlines Chuandeng's argument that in Tiantai doctrine, "Suchness" (Tathata) encompasses all reality; therefore, the virtuous quality of nature possesses both inherent goodness and inherent badness, thereby unfolding the doctrine of the Reality of all dharmas. Consequently, Chuandeng's discourse on the inherent badness within the nature upholds the fundamental standpoint of Tiantai teachings.
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Yoo Boo-hyun examines the compositional relationships among the scriptures recorded in the Northern Song Kaibao Canon, the Jin Zhaocheng Canon, the First Goryeo Canon, and the Second Goryeo Canon. Through a detailed comparison and explanation of the base texts, woodblock carvings, and quantity of scriptures in these editions, this paper provides more reliable research results for the study of Chinese Buddhist Canon versions.
Thierry Meynard analyzes the content of assignments from sixteen students preserved from a Nanjing Catholic school in the early Qing dynasty. He explores the Catholic Church's strategy at the time of adopting Confucian classics to refute Buddhism and folk religion. Through these assignments, he discovers that when discussing the issue of "fasting" (vegetarianism/abstinence), students transformed Confucian classics into the ultimate authority for distinguishing between Buddhist and Catholic fasting practices, indicating that this strategy was accepted at the time.
Brewster, Ernest B analyzes the Treatise on the Nature of Good and Evil (Xingshan'e lun) written by the Ming dynasty monk Youxi Chuandeng (1554–1628). The author outlines Chuandeng's argument that in Tiantai doctrine, "Suchness" (Tathata) encompasses all reality; therefore, the virtuous quality of nature possesses both inherent goodness and inherent badness, thereby unfolding the doctrine of the Reality of all dharmas. Consequently, Chuandeng's discourse on the inherent badness within the nature upholds the fundamental standpoint of Tiantai teachings.
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YOO, Boo-hyun The Compositional Relationship between the Kaibao Canon 開寶藏, the Zhaocheng Canon 趙城藏, the First Tripiṭaka Koreana 高麗初雕 藏, and the Tripiṭaka Koreana 高麗再雕藏
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MEYNARD, Thierry “Complementing Confucianism and Rejecting Buddhism” by Ming-Qing Jesuits: Research on the Teaching Sessions in 1686; the Question of Fasting
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BREWSTER, Ernest Billings The “Non-Duality of Goodness and Badness”: Youxi Chuandeng 幽溪傳燈 on the Badness Inherent in Reality
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ZHANG, Wen-ting A Review of Research and Methodological Reflection on Buddhism and Violence
