Differentiating the pearl from the fish-eye : Ouyang Jingwu and the revival of scholastic Buddhism /
"In Differentiating the Pearl from the Fish-Eye, Eyal Aviv offers an account of Ouyang Jingwu (1871-1943), a leading intellectual who revived the Buddhist scholastic movement during the early Republican period in China. Ouyang believed that authentic Indian Buddhism was an alternative to the pr...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2020]
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| Series: | East Asian Buddhist philosophy ;
v. 1 East Asian Buddhist philosophy v. 1 |
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| Summary: | "In Differentiating the Pearl from the Fish-Eye, Eyal Aviv offers an account of Ouyang Jingwu (1871-1943), a leading intellectual who revived the Buddhist scholastic movement during the early Republican period in China. Ouyang believed that authentic Indian Buddhism was an alternative to the prevalent Chinese Buddhist doctrines of his time. Aviv shows how Ouyang's rhetoric of authenticity won the movement well-known admirers but also influential critics. This debate shaped modern intellectual history in China and has lost none of its relevancy today"-- |
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| Item Description: | Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 2008 |
| Physical Description: | x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index Includes bibliographical references |
| ISBN: | 9004437908 9789004437906 |
| ISSN: | 2451-831X ; |