Remarks on the "Person of Authority" in the Dga' ldan pa / Dge lugs pa School of Tibetian Buddhism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3967569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leonard W J Van Der Kuijp, Tom J F Tillemans |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 646 |
| Publication date | 1999-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/604840 |
| OpenAlex | W2485475808 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The study under review focuses on a series of issues that have occupied a number of scholars in recent years, namely, how the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist epistemologists and logicians assess and come to terms with the (presumed) authenticity (veridicality and verifiability) of one who has achieved buddhahood and his teachings, what kinds of criteria and hermeneutic tools they make use of in their assessment, how they argue for these in the course of making their determinations, and how, ultimately, «reason» and «faith» may be reconciled. Tillemans' work is clearly one of the more important contributions to these important questions. At the same time, it also contains a few conclusions that upon closer inspection do not jibe with what is known about the historical contours of these problem areas in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist studies. The over-emphatic and exclusive use of fairly late Tibetan sources has resulted in several anachronisms and to some degree obscures the genetic origins of these allegedly later ideas, and renders somewhat divergently a number of significant developmental issues
Buddhism · Political science · Theology · Chinese history and philosophy · Eurasian Exchange Networks · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2010 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |