BUDDHISM AND THE DAO IN TANG CHINA: THE IMPACT OF CONFUCIANISM AND DAOISM ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHENG...

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" BUDDHISM AND THE DAO IN TANG CHINA: THE IMPACT OF CONFUCIANISM AND DAOISM ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHENGGUAN "
Imre Hamar

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	811398
Doc. No	:	LA99072
Main Entry	:	Imre Hamar
Title & Author	:	BUDDHISM AND THE DAO IN TANG CHINA: THE IMPACT OF CONFUCIANISM AND DAOISM ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF CHENGGUAN [Article]\ Imre Hamar
Title of Periodical	:	Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
Date	:	1999
Volume/ Issue Number	:	52-3/4
Page No	:	283--292
Abstract	:	Chengguan 澄観 (738-839), the fourth patriarch of the Huayan school of Chinese Buddhism, declared the primacy of Buddhism over Confucianism and Daoism and criticised these philosophies from a Buddhist stance. In his subcommentary to the Avataṁsaka Sūtra, he defines ten differences between Buddhism and indigenous philosophies, which are discussed in this paper. However, he also often quoted from Chinese Classics to clarify the meaning of a Buddhist tenet. On these occasions he sometimes adds that he only borrows the words but not their meaning. We investigate how he places these words into a new, Buddhist context.