Buddhist Apologetics in East Asia

Countering the Neo-Confucian Critiques in the Hufa lun and the Yusŏk chirŭi non

Dados Bibliográficos

ID23536004
AutoresUri Kaplan
Ano2019
Data de publicação2019-08-05
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoBuddhist Apologetics in East Asia (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004407886
OpenAlexW2946503883
ISBN9789004407886
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas25

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.

Apologetics · Archaeology · Art · Buddhism · China · East Asia · Intertextuality · Literature · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Religious studies