Buddhist apologetics in East Asia : : countering the neo-Confucian critiques in the Hufa lun and the Yusŏk chirŭi non / / by Uri Kaplan.

• Superior document: Numen Book Series; volume163
• VerfasserIn: Kaplan, Uri,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2019.
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English; Chinese
• Series: Numen Book Series; volume163.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (273 pages).
• Other title: Front Matter -- Dedication -- Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: Translations.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 900440788X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Uri Kaplan.

While the Neo-Confucian critique of Buddhism is fairly well-known, little attention has been given to the Buddhist reactions to this harangue. The fact is, however, that over a dozen apologetic essays have been written by Buddhists in China, Korea, and Japan in response to the Neo-Confucians. Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia offers an introduction to this Buddhist literary genre. It centers on full translations of two dominant apologetic works—the Hufa lun (護法論), written by a Buddhist politician in twelfth-century China, and the Yusŏk chirŭi non (儒釋質疑論), authored by an anonymous monk in fifteenth-century Korea. Put together, these two texts demonstrate the wide variety of polemical strategies and the cross-national intertextuality of East Asian Buddhist apologetics.