Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism

Leslie Kawamura

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Har Dayal's The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature published in 1931 was the first extensive study in English of the Bodhisattva doctrine. Dayal discussed the Bodhisattva doctrine as it was expounded in the Buddhist Sanskrit texts, and it remains a question whether anything more can be added to his excellent study. However, no other book on the doctrine has appeared in English subsequent to Dayal's study, and Buddhist scholarship, having expanded beyond the boundaries of the Sanskrit language, must now take into account information found not only in the Sanskrit language but also in other languages fundamental to Buddhist studies. In order to investigate what current research in Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese materials could contribute to the study of the Bodhisattva doctrine, the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Calgary planned a conference around the theme of the Bodhisattva. The papers presented in this volume were first read and discussed at the conference.

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• Philosophy

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• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 30 octobre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781554587209
• Langue: English

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The Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism
edited and introduced by Leslie S. Kawamura

Published for the Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion / Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses by Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
The Bodhisattva doctrine in Buddhism
(SR supplements ; 10)
Papers presented at the Calgary Buddhism conference, Sept, 18-21, 1978, sponsored by the Religious Studies Dept., Faculty of Humanities, University of Calgary Includes index. ISBN 0-919812-12-0
1. Bodhisattvas - Congresses. I. Kawamura, Leslie S. II. University of Calgary. Religious Studies Dept. III. Series.
BQ4293.B63 294.3 422 C81-095065-0
1981 Corporation Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses / Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion
No part of this book may be translated or reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, microfiche, or any other means, without written permission from the publisher.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
THE CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
INAUGURAL ADDRESS
The Relevance of the Bodhisattva Concept for Today Peter Slater
INDIA
The Evolution of the Concept of the Bodhisattva Arthur L. Basham
The Bodhisattva Returns to This World Gadjin M. Nagao
TIBET
Influence of the Bodhisattva Doctrine on Tibetan Political History Turrell V. Wylie
The View of Bodhicitta in Tibetan Buddhism Lobsang Dargyay
Bodhisattva - The Ethical Phase in Evolution Herbert V. Guenther
CHINA
The Bodhisattva Idea in Chinese Literature: Typology and Significance Y n-hua Jan
The Bodhisattva Concept: A Study of the Chinese Buddhist Canon Lewis R. Lancaster
JAPAN
The Bodhisattva Doctrine as Conceived and Developed by the Founders of the New Sects in the Heian and Kamakura Periods Hisao Inagaki
Japan s New Religions (1945-65): Secularization or Spiritualization? Minoru Kiyota
The My k nin: Japan s Representation of the Bodhisattva Leslie S. Kawamura
INDEX
PREFACE
Despite a threatening Air Canada strike, nearly seventy registrants from places as far away as Australia, Hawaii, Japan, Austria, Thailand, and England gathered at The University of Calgary from September 18 to September 21, 1978. The occasion was the Calgary Buddhism Conference sponsored by the Religious Studies Department, Faculty of Humanities, The University of Calgary.
The purpose of the conference was to investigate the evolution of the Bodhisattva doctrine in the country of its origin and within countries to which Mah y na Buddhism has spread. The papers making up this volume were presented and discussed at the conference.
In addition to those who contributed to this volume, the conference benefitted from the presence of the following scholars who acted either as respondents or as chairpersons: Bernard Cooke, Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts (formerly of The University of Calgary); Narayan H. Samtani, Benares Hindu University (formerly of Chieng Mai University, Thailand); Keith Scott (formerly of the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon); Earl Waugh, University of Alberta; Kennard Lipman (presently studying under Lama Norbu, Formia, Italy); Harold Coward, Peter Craigie, Wayne McCready, Ronald Neufeldt, and Terrence Penelhum, University of Calgary.
The cost of hosting the conference was met through financial aid from the following agents and grants: Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute; Special Project Fund of the Vice-President (Academic), University of Calgary; University of Calgary Research Fund; ACAD Research Fund, University of Calgary; Canada Council Grant; Alberta Government Services; and the Office of the Dean of Humanities, University of Calgary.
The typing of the camera-ready copy of this manuscript was made possible through a grant from the Office of the Dean of Humanities. The publication of the volume has been made possible, in part, by a grant from the Endowment Fund of the University of Calgary.
As the co-ordinator and chairperson of the Conference and the editor of this volume, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the scholars who presented papers at the Conference and then prepared them for publication here; those who served as respondents and chairpersons; those who gave financial assistance for hosting the Conference and for publication of this volume; those who took the time and effort to travel great distances to attend the conference as registered participants; the Canadian Corporation for the Study of Religions for accepting this manuscript for publication in the SR Supplement Series; and, finally, the Wilfrid Laurier University Press for undertaking the work of copy editing and publication.
A special word of thanks is due to Joan Barton and Valerie Matwick, secretaries in the office of the Dean of Humanities, for their patience and dedication in typing the final camera-ready copy of this manuscript and to Kay Wong, a student in Buddhist Studies, for her long hours of dedicated hard work in compiling the index.
Time moves quickly and already more than two years have passed since the Conference. I am pleased to be able to present this volume, late as it is, to all whose interest may carry them to the Bodhisattva Doctrine in Buddhism.
Leslie S. Kawamura Religious Studies Department Faculty of Humanities The University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta
January 1981.
THE CONTRIBUTORS
ARTHUR LLEWELLYN BASHAM, now retired, was until the end of 1979 Professor and Head of the Department of Asian Civilizations, The Australian National University, Canberra. He has received such honours as the Biennial Dr. B.C. Law Gold Medal for Indology from the Asiatic Society, Calcutta (1975), and the D. Litt. degree (London) in the History of South Asia (1966) and honorary doctorates from the University of Kurakshetra and the Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, India (1977). He is the author of History and Doctrine of the Ajivikas (1952), The Wonder that was India (1954), some fifty articles and many reviews in numerous periodicals, and Forewords/Introductions to many books. He has been a visiting professor of many universities in England, Ceylon, the U.S.A, Mexico, India, Argentina, and Canada. He received his Ph.D. from the University of London, England in 1951 in Indian History.
LOBSANG DARGYAY is presently a University Assistant at the Institute of Tibetology and Buddhist Studies, University of Vienna (Austria), and a Lecturer for Tibetan Language. He earned his Geshay with first-class honours (1958) and his doctor philosophiae cum laude from the Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, in 1974. He has lectured at Punjab University, Pattiala, for the Kalmuk community of Western Germany, and has been research fellow at the Institute of Indology, Munich University.
HERBERT V. GUENTHER is Professor and Head, Far Eastern Studies Department, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon. He studied in Munich, Vienna, India, and Tibet and has taught at Vienna University, Lucknow University, the Sanskrit University, and the International School of America. He has authored some 20 books among which are Das Seelenproblem im lteren Buddhismus, The Royal Song of Saraha, The Life and Teaching of Naropa, The Jewel Ornament of Liberation, The Tantric View of Life, and Kindly Bent to Ease Us , Parts I, II, and III. He has written some seventy articles and many reviews in various journals. He holds the Ph.D. (Munich, 1939) and the Dr. Phil. Habil. (Vienna, 1943) .
HISAO INAGAKI is Lecturer in Far Eastern Buddhism at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, England. He was awarded the British Council Scholarship for post-graduate studies (1966-68) after completing his course work in the doctorate programme in Shin Buddhism at Ryukoku University, Kyoto (1960). Among his publications are Sokushinj butsugi, translation and annotations, Asia Major (1972) and An Index to the Tibetan Version of the Larger Sukh vat vy ha S tra (1978). He received his Ph.D. from the University of London, England, in 1968.
Y N-HUA JAN is Professor of Religion, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton. He has received a Canada Council Fellowship (1973-74) and has lectured in Chinese Studies at Visva-Bharati University, India. He has been a visiting researcher at the Institute of Oriental Culture, University of Tokyo (1974). He is the author of A Chronicle of Buddhism in China 581-906 A.D. (1967) and has ready for publication The Autobiography of Ch i Pai-shih. He has contributed many articles written in Chinese and English to various journals. He received his Ph.D. from the Visva-Bharati University, India.
LESLIE S. KAWAMURA is Associate Professor, Religious Studies Department, University of Calgary, Alberta. He has authored, co-authored or edited six books among which are Golden Zephyr (1975) , Mind in Buddhist Psychology (1975), and Buddhist Thought and Asian Civilization: Essays in Honor of Herbert V. Guenther on His Sixtieth Birthday (1977). He has contributed articles to several books and journals, has been a recipient of several scholarships and grants, and was awarded the Calgary Institute for the Humanities Fellowship (1977-78). He received his Ph.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, in 1976.
MINORU KIYOTA is Professor, Department of South Asian Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Among his publications are Yog c ra Impact on Pure Land (1974), Buddhism and Social Change in Southeast Asia (1978), Shingon Buddhism: Theory and Practice (1978). He rece