Guang Xing

Filial Piety in Chinese Buddhism (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how Buddhism gradually integrated itself into the Chinese culture by taking filial piety as a case study because it is an important moral teaching in Confucianism and it has shaped nearly every aspect of Chinese social life. The Chinese criticized Buddhism mainly on ethical grounds as Buddhist clergies left their parents' homes, did not marry, and were without offspring-actions which were completely contrary to the Confucian concept and practice of filial piety that emphasizes family life. Chinese Buddhists responded to these criticisms in six different ways while accepting good teachings from the Chinese philosophy. They also argued and even refuted some emotional charges such as rejecting everything non-Chinese. The elite responded in theoretical argumentation by (1) translations of and references to Buddhist scriptures that taught filial behavior, (2) writing scholarly refutations of the charges of unfilial practices, such as Qisong's Xiaolun (Treatise of Filial Piety), (3) interpreting Buddhist precepts as equal to the Confucian concept of filial piety, and (4) teaching people to pay four kinds of compassions to four groups of people: parents, all sentient beings, kings, and Buddhism. In practice the ordinary Buddhists responded by (1) composing apocryphal scriptures and (2) popularizing stories and parables that teach filial piety, such as the stories of Shanzi and Mulian, by ways of public lectures, painted illustrations on walls and silk, annual celebration of the ghost festival, etc. Thus, Buddhism finally integrated into the Chinese culture and became a distinctive Chinese Buddhism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781433192029
• Artikelnr.: 65839957

Autorenporträt

Guang Xing (PhD, School of Oriental and African Studies) is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong and a Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia. His publications include The Concept of the Buddha, The Historical Buddha, and many papers.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments - Abbreviations - List of Tables - Foreword by Professor Timothy H. Barrett - Introduction - Filial Piety in Early Buddhism - Early Buddhist and Confucian Concepts of Filial Piety: A Comparative Study - The Spread of the Buddhist Teaching of Filial Piety during the Six Dynasties: A Study Based on the Shanzi Jing and the Yulanpen Jing - Buddhist Responses to Confucian and Daoist Criticisms of Filial Piety - "Filial Piety are the Precepts": Chinese Buddhist Reinterpretation of the Precepts - A Study of the Apocryphal Text: Fumu Enzhong Jing - A Study of Repaying the Four Kinds of Compassion - Qisong's Xiaolun (Treatise on Filial Piety): A Study and Critical Translation - Conclusion - Bibliography - Index.