Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism : A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise

作者：RobertH.Sharf

出版社：UniversityofHawaiiPress

副标题：AReadingoftheTreasureStoreTreatise

原作名：寶藏論

出版年：2005-11-30

页数：416

定价：USD27.00

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9780824830281

内容简介
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Chinese Buddhism is often portrayed as the product of a protracted encounter between Indian Buddhism and Chinese civilization, an encounter that led to the "sinification" of Buddhist teachings and practices. In a masterful display of scholarship, Robert Sharf makes a major contribution to the re-evaluation of the encounter. He shows that, although the Chinese were cognizant of the foreign origins of Buddhism, their actual exposure to South Asian clerics and Sanskrit texts was limited throughout medieval times. For the most part, Sharf argues, the Chinese dialogue with Buddhism took place among the Chinese themselves. That being the case, Chinese Buddhism is more properly approached as a product of sinitic culture, not a distorted reflection of normative Indian Buddhist prototypes. Sharf draws his argument in part from a close analysis of an obscure, nominally Buddhist text, the Treasure Store Treatise (Pao-tsang lun). The book begins with a careful reconstruction of historical and religious provenance of the text. It next turns to an analysis of internal evidence to demonstrate the close affinity between the Treatise and texts associated with Ox-head Ch'an and Twofold-Mystery Taoism. There follows a fascinating discussion of the metaphysical underpinnings of the Treatise in Chinese "correlative cosmology", in which Sharf points out the degree to which the metaphysical notion of "sympathetic resonance" (kan-ying) structured the medieval Chinese understanding of virtually all aspects of Buddhist doctrine, ritual, and soteriology. The introductory section is followed by a translation of the three chapters of the Treatise, including lengthy annotation that provides extended philologicaland philosophical discussion of dozens of key terms and concepts. The study concludes with a critical analysis of the place of Tantric, or Esoteric, Buddhism within the Chinese Buddhist tradition.

作者简介
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Professor Robert Sharf received his B.A. (Religious Studies) and M.A. (Chinese Studies) from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. (Buddhist Studies) from the University of Michigan. He taught at McMaster University (1989-95) and the University of Michigan (1995-2003) before joining the Berkeley faculty. He works primarily in the area of medieval Chinese Buddhism (especially Chan), but he also dabbles in Japanese Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, and methodological issues in the study of religion. He is author of Coming to Terms with Chinese Buddhism: A Reading of the Treasure Store Treatise (2002), co-editor of Living Images: Japanese Buddhist Icons in Context (2001), and is currently working on a book tentatively titled How to Read a Zen Koan. In addition to his appointment in EALC he serves as Director of the Group in Buddhist Studies, Director of Religious Studies, and Chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ABBREVIATIONS

CONVENTIONS OF USAGE

Introduction: Prolegomenon to the Study of Medieval Chinese Buddhist Literature

Part 1: The Historical and Cosmological Background

1. The Date and Provenance of the Treasure Store Treatise

2. Chinese Buddhism and the Cosmology of Sympathetic Resonance

Part 2: Annotated Translation of the Treasure Store Treatise Introduction to the Translation

3. The Treasure Store Treatise/Chapter One

The Broad Illumination of Emptiness and Being

4. The Treasure Store Treatise/Chapter Two

The Essential Purity of Transcendence and Subtlety

5. The Treasure Store Treatise/Chapter Three

The Empty Mystery of the Point of Genesis

Appendix 1: On Esoteric Buddhism in China

Appendix 2: Scriptural Quotations in the Treasure Store Treatise

NOTES

WORKS CITED

INDEX

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序言對「Sinification」範式的解構，痛砭頑疾，讀得很爽。但話鋒一轉，結論「encounter」幾近沒有發生，又落入兩分的窠臼。

此书写得非常厉害。导论质疑中国佛教的被动接受史叙述，而强调将其本土化。第一部分前半部分析7-8世纪伪佛书《宝藏论》与道家、禅宗思想的相互含摄；后半部以“感应”宇宙观为例，给出了一个十分有说服力的“本土化”个案分析。第二部分为《宝藏论》英文翻译及注释。附论则解构作为宗派的唐代密宗，而从宗教实践的角度将其还原成技术与仪式。是当代学者反思佛教“中国化”范式的典范之作。

论文用过，补标。

很久之前读过intro，如今再读，还是觉得精彩炫目。Sharf的批判很深刻：在进入汉地的那刻起，sinification便已实现，此后的发展运作基本均围绕汉语展开；syncretism的预设是存在两支在相遇前各自发展的传统，但这只是本质主义的想象；建构的话语与实际的历史有诸多差别，建构是排异的，因而时刻需声明自身权威及树立异端他者，宗派也在这一过程中整齐分明。但在真实情境中，orthodox只是一…

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