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Critical Buddhism

Engaging with Modern Japanese Buddhist Thought [Hardback]

by James Mark Shields

    • Author

      James Mark Shields

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Ashgate Publishing Group

    • Published

      March 2011

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      In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the relative calm world of Japanese Buddhist scholarship was thrown into chaos with the publication of several works by Buddhist scholars Hakamaya Noriaki and Matsumoto Shiro, dedicated to the promotion of something they called Critical Buddhism (hihan bukkyo). In their quest to reestablish a 'true' - rational, ethical and humanist - form of East Asian Buddhism, the Critical Buddhists undertook a radical deconstruction of historical and contemporary East Asian Buddhism, particularly Zen. While their controversial work has received some attention in English-language scholarship, this is the first book-length treatment of Critical Buddhism as both a philosophical and religious movement, where the lines between scholarship and practice blur. Providing a critical and constructive analysis of Critical Buddhism, particularly the epistemological categories of critica and topica, this book examines contemporary theories of knowledge and ethics in order to situate Critical Buddhism within modern Japanese and Buddhist thought as well as in relation to current trends in contemporary Western thought.

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      • Author

        James Mark Shields

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Ashgate Publishing Group

      • Published

        March 2011

      • Weight

        486g

      • Page Count

        240

      • Dimensions

        156 x 234 x 15 mm

      • ISBN

        9781409417989

      • ISBN-10

        1409417980

      • Eden Code

        4535076

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      • Author/Creator: James Mark Shields

      • ISBN: 9781409417989

      • Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group

      • Release Date: March 2011

      • Weight: 486g

      • Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 15 mm

      • Eden Code: 4535076


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