Buddhist literature as philosophy, Buddhist philosophy as literature /edited by Rafal K. Stepien.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Languages -- Introduction: Philosophy, Literature, Religion: Buddhism as Transdisciplinary Intervention -- Buddhist Literature as Philosophy, Buddhist Philosophy as Literature -- Philosophy, Literature, Religion -- Buddhist Philosophy, Buddhist Literature -- Philosophy, Literature, Religion: Buddhism as Transdisciplinary Intervention -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part I: Buddhist Literature as Philosophy -- Chapter 1 Transformative Vision: Coming to See the Buddha's Reality -- The Bodhisattva in Philosophical Debate -- Against Extraction

Learning an Orientation and Outlook -- The Limits of the Laboratory, the Authority of the Buddha -- Transformation through Narrations of Reality -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2 Jātakas and the Abhidhamma: Practical Compassion and Kusala Citta -- The Javanahaṃsa jātaka (J 476) -- The Skillful Citta (Kusala Citta) -- The Kurudhamma jātaka (J 276) -- Mahosadha jātaka (J 546) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Works Cited -- Chapter 3 Panegyric as Philosophy: Philosophical Dimensions of Indian Buddhist Hymns -- Authorship -- Audience -- Assignee -- Accolades and Actions

Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4 Of Doctors, Poets, and the Minds of Men: Aesthetics and Wisdom in Aśvaghoṣa's Beautiful Nanda -- The Breaking-in of Nanda -- Taking Flight -- The Talking Cure -- One Body, Many Worlds -- Poetic Argument -- Concluding Thoughts -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5 Buddhist Literary Criticism in East Asian Literature -- Tale of Genji and the Religious Function of Literature -- Dream of the Red Chamber and the Truth of Fiction -- The Silence of the Beloved and the Art of Life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited

Chapter 6 The Green Bamboo Is the Dharmakāya: Waka Poetry and the Buddhist Imagination in Heian Japan -- The Buddhist Imagination in Heian Japan -- The Ritual Embedding of Waka Poetry: The Kangaku-e -- The Contemplative Disembedding of Waka Poetry: Kiyosuke and Shunzei -- The Philosophical Grounds for and Poetic Products of Contemplative Disembedding: Jakuzen's Hōmon hyakushu -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Part II Buddhist Philosophy as Literature -- Chapter 7 The Scandal of the Speaking Buddha: Performative Utterance and the Erotics of the Dharma -- The Progenitorial Body of the Buddha

Bodies and/as Speech Acts -- Skill in Means as Verbal Insemination -- The Erotics of the Dharma and the Production of Bodies -- Conclusion: The Scandals of Speech, Ancient and Modern -- Notes -- Abbreviations -- Works Cited -- Chapter 8 The Original Mind Is the Literary Mind, the Original Body Carves Dragons -- The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons -- The Literary Mind -- Literature and Mind -- (Buddhist) Literature and Philosophy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 9 On Resolving Disputes between Literary (Wenzi) and Nonliterary (Wuzi) Approaches to Expressing Zen Buddhist Philosophy

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