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Buddhism and Postmodernity - Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics (Hardcover)
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Buddhism and Postmodernity - Zen, Huayan, and the Possibility of Buddhist Postmodern Ethics (Hardcover)
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Buddhism and Postmodernity is a response to some of the questions
that have emerged in the process of Buddhism's encounters with
modernity and the West. Jin Y. Park broadly outlines these
questions as follows: first, why are the interpretations and
evaluations of Buddhism so different in Europe (in the nineteenth
century), in the United States (in the twentieth century), and in
traditional Asia; second, why does Zen Buddhism, which offers a
radically egalitarian vision, maintain a strongly authoritarian
leadership; and third, what ethical paradigm can be drawn from the
Buddhist-postmodern form of philosophy? Park argues that, as
unrelated as these questions may seem, the issues that have
generated them are related to perennial philosophical themes of
identity, institutional power, and ethics, respectively. Each of
these themes constitutes one section of Buddhism and Postmodernity.
Park discusses the three issues in the book through the exploration
of the Buddhist concepts of self and others, language and thinking,
and universality and particularities. Most of this discussion is
drawn from the East Asian Buddhist traditions of Zen and Huayan
Buddhism in connection with the Continental philosophies of
postmodernism, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. Self-critical from
both the Buddhist and Western philosophical perspectives, Buddhism
and Postmodernity points the reader toward a new understanding of
Buddhist philosophy and offers a Buddhist-postmodern ethical
paradigm that challenges normative ethics of metaphysical
traditions.
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