published_or_final_version / Buddhist Studies / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

論文(碩士)--香港中文大學, 1971. / Manuscript. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 346-347) / Thesis (M.A.)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue. / 緒論 --- p.1-5 / Chapter 第一部分 --- 何以要轉識成智──依唯識宗所表示要求轉識成智的理由 --- p.6-62 / Chapter 第二部分 --- 理論方面以何轉識成智──唯識宗所表示轉識成智的意義 --- p.63-113 / Chapter 第三部分 --- 轉識成智的何可能──唯識宗以長示轉識成智的可能性 --- p.114-174 / Chapter 第四部分 --- 唯識宗所表示的轉識成智可能性的理論困難 --- p.175-237 / Chapter 第五部分 --- 理論困難的消解 --- p.238-341 / Chapter 甲 --- 理論方面的描述 --- p.241-305 / Chapter 乙 --- 歷史方面的描述 --- p.360-341 / 檢討 --- p.342-345 / 參考用書 --- p.346-347

Buddhist Studies / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

Mipam ('ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846-1912), an architect of the Nyingma (rnying ma) tradition of Tibet in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, articulates two distinct models of the two truths that are respectively reflected in Madhyamaka and Yogācāra Buddhist traditions. The way he positions these two models sheds light on how levels of description are at play in his integration of these traditions. Mipam positions one kind of two-truth model as the product of an ontological analysis while another model can be seen as resulting from a phenomenological reduction. He accommodates both models into his systematic interpretation, and for him, each one has an important role to play in coming to understand the nature of the Buddhist truths of emptiness and Buddha-nature. Since each model reflects a different style of analysis, or a different perspective on truth, his presentation reveals how neither model alone has the last word on the nature of what is and how it is experienced. This paper analyzes the means by which he lays out these two models of the two truths, and explores the implications of their integration in his philosophical works. A primary concern for Mipam, and a factor that guides his attempt to integrate these two approaches to truth, is his aim to both induce authentic experience and true knowledge on the one hand, and represent reality and the experience of it on the other. These competing and complimentary objectives are a central focus around which both styles of critical reflection, and both models of the two truths, revolve.

In Tibet, the negative dialectics of Madhyamaka are typically identified with Candrakīrti's interpretation of Nāgārjuna, and systematic epistemology is associated with Dharmakīrti. These two figures are also held to be authoritative commentators on a univocal doctrine of Buddhism. Despite Candrakīrti's explicit criticism of Buddhist epistemologists in his Prasannapadā, Buddhists in Tibet have integrated the theories of Candrakīrti and Dharmakīrti in unique ways. Within this integration, there is a tension between the epistemological system-building on the one hand, and "deconstructive" negative dialectics on the other. The integration of an epistemological system within Madhyamaka is an important part of Mipam's ('ju mi pham rgya mtsho, 1846-1912) philosophical edifice, and is an important part of understanding the place of Yogācāra in his tradition. This paper explores the way that Mipam preserves a meaningful Svātantrika-Prāsaṅgika distinction while claiming both Yogācāra and Prāsaṅgika as legitimate expressions of Madhyamaka. Mipam represents Prāsaṅgika-Madhyamaka as a discourse that emphasizes what transcends conceptuality. As such, he portrays Prāsaṅgika as a radical discourse of denial. Since the mind cannot conceive the "content" of nonconceptual meditative equipoise, Prāsaṅgika, as the representative discourse of meditative equipoise, negates any formulation of that state. In contrast, he positions Yogācāra as a discourse that situates the nonconceptual within a systematic (conceptual) structure. Rather than a discourse that re-presents the nonconceptual by enacting it (like Prāsaṅgika), the discourse of Yogācāra represents the nonconceptual within an overarching system, a system (unlike Prāsaṅgika) that distinguishes between the conceptual and the nonconceptual.

Cette étude porte sur les productions iconographiques inspirées de la tradition huayan, l'une des principales écoles chinoises du bouddhisme mahāyāna, née de l’élaboration et de l'étude d’un texte, l’Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayan jing en chinois). L’analyse des œuvres se répartit en quatre chapitres. Le premier examine les premières figures du buddha sous sa forme dite de « buddha cosmique », c’est-à-dire dont les vêtements ou le corps, parfois l’auréole et la mandorle sont recouverts de figures plus petites qui se réfèrent au discours cosmologique du sūtra (et en particulier du Daśabhūmika-sūtra, un texte dédié à la méditation, autrefois indépendant et intégré ensuite dans l’Avataṃsaka-sūtra). Ces figures sculptées ou peintes, datant du Ve au IXe siècles, se trouvent principalement dans le Nord-Ouest de la Chine actuelle (Xinjiang et Gansu). Le second chapitre porte sur l’environnement imagier de ces buddhas du VIe au VIIe siècles et sur les premiers portraits sculptés de Vairocana, le buddha principal dans l’Avataṃsaka-sūtra. Ces images consacrées à la méditation furent réalisées dans le Shandong et le Henan actuels et marquées par l'influence d'autres écoles bouddhiques. Le troisième chapitre étudie le développement, sous l’influence du bouddhisme ésotérique, de nouveaux portraits de Vairocana et des bodhisattvas qui en émanent. Les rares exemples conservés se trouvent au Sichuan et datent principalement de la dynastie Song (XIe-XIIIe siècles). Le quatrième chapitre traite de différents types d'images mettant en scène ou combinant plusieurs figures. Tout d'abord, les représentations d’assemblées réalisées en peinture à Dunhuang (Gansu) sous la dynastie Tang (VIIIe-Xe siècles). Puis les images peintes ou imprimées, réalisées sous des Tang aux Song (VIIIe-XIIe siècles), qui illustrent le Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra, la dernière section de l’Avataṃsaka-sūtra qui narre l’histoire d’un jeune Indien parti en pèlerinage pour atteindre l’éveil. Sont enfin abordés les maṇḍala, représentations métaphysiques et symboliques de l’univers sous forme de diagrammes associés à des symboles bouddhiques et à une ou plusieurs divinités. / This study deals with the iconographic production inspired by the huayan tradition, one of the main Chinese schools of mahāyāna Buddhism born from the elaboration and study of a set of texts known as the Avataṃsaka-sūtra (Huayan jing in Chinese). The analysis of the artworksis organized into four chapters. The first one examines the first figures of the Buddha known as “cosmic Buddhas”, i.e. those whose clothes or body, or mandorla, are fully covered with smaller figures which refer to the cosmological discourse of the sūtra (particularlythat of the Daśabhūmika-sūtra, a text dedicated to meditation that was once a separate piece and was later included into the Avataṃsaka-sūtra). These sculpted or painted figures, dating from the 5th to the 9thcenturies, are mainly found in the Northwestern part of present-day China (Xinjiang and Gansu). The second chapter studies the iconographic environment of these Buddhas from the 6th to the 7th centuries as well as the first sculpted portraits of Vairocana, the main Buddha in the Avataṃsaka-sūtra. These images, which were used for meditation practices, were produced in what would be the present-day Shandong and Henan under the influence of other Buddhist schools. The third chapter studies the development of new portraits of Vairocana and his emanations as bodhisattvas under the influence of esoteric Buddhism.The only preserved examples are found in Sichuan and date from the Song dynasty (11th-12th centuries). The fourth chapter deals with various types of images which present or combine several figures. First, the painted representations of assemblies produced at Dunhuang (Gansu) during the Tang Dynasty (8th-10th centuries). Second, the painted or printed illustrations of the Gaṇḍavyūha-sūtra, the last section of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra, which tells the story of a young Indian boy gone on a pilgrimage to attain enlightenment. These images were produced from the Tang to the Song dynasty (8th-13th centuries).

My study concerns the works of William James (1842--1910) and the Buddhist thinker Vasubandhu (circa fifth c.). In both cases there is a detailed examination of consciousness which looks at its physiological concomitants. Where James is concerned, this physiological study is found mainly within his Principles of Psychology (1890). In Vasubandhu's case the physiological preconditions of conscious life is inherited from traditional Buddhist psychology (skandhas), but are expanded into the Yogacara concept of the alaya-vijnana (storehouse consciousness). This novel form of consciousness has been interpreted as both a soul theory in Buddhism, and a form of metaphysical idealism. It is these elements that I juxtapose with similar notions found in Jamesian studies (self and idealism). Thus, Chapter One examines consciousness from the isolated perspective of each thinker, Chapter Two moves to an examination of self, and Chapter Three looks at the possibility of Idealism which is explicitly rejected by James, and is rejected also by many interpreters of the alaya-vijnana.

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