佛性(如來藏)思想由印度流傳至中國﹐經過千餘年的發展﹐可謂源遠流長﹐其思想複雜且豐富﹐對由中國佛教有很深遠的影響﹐如天台宗、華嚴宗、禪宗等都是建立在佛性的思想上。本書共收六篇專文﹐前三篇是印度佛教中有關 佛性思想之經論的研究﹐即《大般涅槃經》、《寶性論》、《佛性論》的佛性思想。第四篇討論《大乘起信論》的心性說。第五篇討論初唐性宗和相宗關於「一性」、「五性」的爭辯。最後一篇則是從天台宗主張草木有性談到現代 深層生態學﹐以論證佛性說可為現代生態學的哲理基礎。
作者簡介:釋恆清1943年生,台南新營人。美國威斯康辛大學佛學博士。曾任台灣大學哲學系教授、法光佛教文化研究所所長、臺灣大學佛學研究中心主。著有Syncretism of Ch''an and Pure Land Buddhism、《菩提道上的善女人》、《佛性思想》等中英文專書及多篇期刊論文,並英譯《優婆塞戒經》 (The S?tra on Upasak Precepts)、《四十二章經》、《心經幽贊》等。
This is the fourth volume of proceedings of the Āgama seminars convened by the Āgama Research Group at the Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal Arts (formerly Dharma Drum Buddhist College). It comprises nineteen studies, contributed by eighteen different scholars, on various themes related to the Connected Collections of discourses (suttas, sūtras) — Saṃyutta-nikāya in Pali, Saṃyukta-āgama in Sanskrit — transmitted by different early Buddhist lineages of reciters, preserved in their Indic originals in Gandhari, Pali and Sanskrit as well as in Chinese and Tibetan translations. This research draws attention to fundamental methodological points posed by the study of these scriptural collections as windows into the formation of early Buddhist texts and the organisation of their transmission.
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About the editor:Bhikkhunī DhammadinnāDharma Drum Institute of Liberal ArtsAbout the contributors:Oskar von HinüberAlbert-Ludwigs-Universität FreiburgBhikkhu AnālayoUniversität HamburgRupert GethinUniversity of BristolRichard SalomonUniversity of WashingtonMark AllonUniversity of SidneyJoseph MarinoUniversity of WashingtonJin-il Chung (鄭鎮一)Akademie der Wissenschaften zu GöttingenPeter Skilling (Bhadra Rujirathat)École française d’Extrême-OrientJens-Uwe HartmannLudwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenYao Fumi (八尾 史)Waseda Institute for Advanced StudiesBhikkhunī DhammadinnāDharma Drum Institute of Liberal ArtsBhikkhu PāsādikaAcadémie bouddhique Linh-SonBhikṣu Huimin (釋惠敏)Dharma Drum Institute of Liberal ArtsTaipei National University of the ArtsKarashima Seishi (辛嶋 靜志)The International Research Institute for Advanced Buddhology at Soka UniversityMarcus BingenheimerTemple UniversityKen Su [Su Jinkun (蘇錦坤) ]Āgama Research GroupChoong Mun-keat (鍾秉潔) [Wei-keat (煒傑)]University of New EnglandStefania TravagninRijksuniversiteit Groningen