The soteriology of the soul : the Shen Bumie discourse in early medieval Chinese buddhism
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation highlights the historical importance of the unique systems of Buddhist practice and thought that emerged in China during the period I propose to refer to as the "era of isolation." Although overlooked by previous studies, the fourth century CE is marked by a seven-decade hiatus (from ca. 310 to ca. 380) in the missionary and translation activities of foreign Buddhists in China, and during this "era of isolation, " the aspiring Buddhists of China independently developed unprecedented forms of religious practice and thought on the basis of the fragmentary information about Indian Buddhism available to them. By examining the initial formation of the scholastic discourse on the imperishability of the soul (shen bumie) during the era of isolation, the theoretical development of the discourse in the early fifth century by Lushan Huiyuan (334--416), Zheng Xianzhi (364--427), and Shi Sengwei (fl. late fourth and early fifth centuries), and the discourse's lasting influence on the Sinitic exegesis of the Indian Mahāyāna doctrine of innate Buddhahood transmitted in the mid-fifth century, I argue that the indigenous Buddhist practice and thought of the isolation period profoundly informed the historical trajectory of Buddhism in China.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2021; ©2021 |
| Publication date | 2021; 2021 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lee, Sangyop |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Kieschnick, John, 1964- |
| Thesis advisor | Kieschnick, John, 1964- |
| Thesis advisor | Harrison, Paul M. (Paul Maxwell), 1950- |
| Thesis advisor | Radich, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Harrison, Paul M. (Paul Maxwell), 1950- |
| Degree committee member | Radich, Michael |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Religious Studies |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sangyop Lee. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Religious Studies. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2021. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/zk554px2595 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2021 by Sangyop Lee
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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