Evil and/or/as the Good : : Omnicentrism, Intersubjectivity, and Value Paradox in Tian¬tai Buddhist Thought / / Brook Ziporyn.

• Superior document: Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 51
• VerfasserIn: Ziporyn, Brook,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2000.; Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2000.
• Year of Publication: 2000
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

"Other than the devil, there is no Buddha; other than the Buddha, there is no devil." The Chinese monk Siming Zhili (960-1028) uttered this remark as part of his justification for his self-immolation. An exposition of the intent, implications, and resonances of this one sentence, this book...

Table of Contents

• Machine generated contents note: I Introduction: The Question
• The Problem of Antithetical Values 2/ A Value-Free Universe? i8/
• Antinomianism? 20
• 2 Value, Intersubjectivity, and Holism: Philosophical Parameters
• and the Chinese Background
• Part I: Holism-Definitions and Distinctions 27
• The Center 3o/ Intersubjectivity and Chinese Holisms 41/
• Object as Focus and Field 50/ Implications of Unicentrism,
• Oligocentrism, and Omnicentrism 55
• Part II: Value 68
• Speculative Ground for a General Theory of Value Paradox 69/
• Inverted Pyramid of Instrumental and Ultimate Values 78/
• Paradox in Chinese Rhetoric 85/ Applications of Holism in
• Early Chinese Thought and Their Axiological Consequences 95
• 3 Value and Anti-value in Indian Buddhism
• 4 Tiantai Basics: Omnicentric Holism
• Part I: The Basics 114
• The Four Teachings and the Three Truths 114/ The Three Tracks 135/
• The Ten Thusnesses 137/ The Ten Realms 138/ The Transcendental
• Marvels, Relative and Absolute 140/ Opening the Provisional to Reveal
• the Real (Transformative Recontextualization) 145/ The Three
• Thousand Quiddites Inherently Entailed in Each Moment of
• Experience / Inherent Entailment 159
• Part II: Transitional Historical Considerations of Later Tiantai 170
• The Huayan School and "Nature-Origination" 170/ The Suratigama
• Sutra and the "Pure Mind" of Early Chan 176/ Zhanran's Reassertion
• of Tiantai 186/ Toward the Shanjia/Shanwai Schism 195
• 5 Intersubjectivity in the Tiantai Tradition as Understood by Zhili I99
• Self-praxis as Identical to the Teaching and Transformation of
• Others 201/ Stimulus and Response (Ganying) 203/ The
• Pervasiveness of the Intersubjective 208/ The Ultimacy of
• Intersubjectivity as a Focus of the Shanjia/Shanwai Debate 218
• 6 Value and Anti-value in Tiantai Thought 240
• Part I: Good and Evil in Zhiyi and Zhanran 240
• Value-Paradoxical Consequences of Tiantai Upiya Theory 241/
• The Moral Benefits of Inherent Evil and Zhiyi's Critique of Anti-
• nomianism 251/ Zhanran on Inherent Evil and Practiced Good 261
• Part II: Zhili's Concept of Value Paradox 270
• The Intersubjective Underpinning of Ineradicable and All-pervading
• Evil as Identical with the Good 272/ The Ultimacy of the Dung
• Beetle 295/ Comparison to Zhiyi and Zhanran 306/ Comparison
• to the Shanwai 312/ Objections and Responses 323/ Zhili's
• Practice of Evil 329
• 7 What's So Good About Evil: Conclusions and Implications 344
• Metaphysical Implications 351/ Episremological Implications 358/
• Ethical Motivations and Implications 361
• Notes 387
• Bibliography 455
• Glossary 465
• Index 471.