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
re-establish 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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