Too often Buddhism has been subjected to the Procrustean box of
western thought, whereby it is stretched to fit fixed categories or
had essential aspects lopped off to accommodate vastly different
cultural norms and aims. After several generations of scholarly
discussion in English-speaking communities, it is time to move to
the next hermeneutical stage. Buddhist philosophy must be liberated
from the confines of a quasi-religious stereotype and judged on its
own merits. Hence this work will approach Chinese Buddhism as a
philosophical tradition in its own right, not as an historical
after-thought nor as an occasion for comparative discussions that
assume the west alone sets the standards for or is the origin of
philosophy and its methodologies. Viewed within their own context,
Chinese Buddhist philosophers have much to contribute to a wide
range of philosophical concerns, including metaphysics,
epistemology, philosophy of language, and perhaps most especially
philosophy of mind. Moreover they have been enormously influential
in the development of Buddhist philosophy in Korea, Vietnam, and
Japan.
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