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The Dao Companion to Japanese Buddhist Philosophy

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Editors:
  1. Gereon Kopf

    1. Luther College, Decorah, USA
      University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

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  • The first comprehensive introduction to Japanese Buddhist philosophy
  • Discusses important themes in the field as well as individual philosophers
  • Introduces the canon of Japanese Buddhist philosophy as well as cutting edge scholarship in the field
  • The first volume to discuss the relatioship between Buddhist philosophy and popular beliefs and conceptions
  • Discusses key concept of and the main thinkers from within the Buddhist tradition in Japan

Part of the book series: Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy (DCCP, volume 8)

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Table of contents (32 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Basic Issues in Japanese Buddhist Philosophy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. “Japanese Buddhism”: Constructions and Deconstructions

      • Richard K. Payne
      Pages 3-51

    3. The “Philosophy” in Japanese Buddhist Philosophy

      • John C. Maraldo
      Pages 53-69

    4. One Step Towards Buddhism as Philosophy

      • Makio Takemura
      Pages 71-81

    5. Japanese Buddhism and Women: The Lotus, Amida, and Awakening

      • Michiko Yusa
      Pages 83-133

    6. Buddhist Philosophy and the Japanese Cultural System

      • Rein Raud
      Pages 135-154

    7. The Philosophical Reception of Japanese Buddhism After 1868

      • Ralf Müller
      Pages 155-203

    8. Interaction Between Japanese Buddhism and Confucianism

      • Tomomi Asakura
      Pages 205-234

    9. The Philosophy of the Mandala

      • Pamela D. Winfield
      Pages 235-253

    10. Carrying Buddha into the Streets: Buddhist Socialist Thought in Modern Japan

      • James Mark Shields
      Pages 255-285

    11. Salvation and Violence in Japanese Buddhism: The Case of Aum Shinrikyō

      • Manabu Watanabe
      Pages 287-304

  3. Individual Philosophers in the Japanese Buddhist Tradition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 305-305
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    2. Saichō: Founding Patriarch of Japanese Buddhism

      • Victor Forte
      Pages 307-335

    3. Kūkai’s Shingon Philosophy: Embodiment

      • David L. Gardiner
      Pages 337-345

    4. Jōkei

      • James L. Ford
      Pages 347-360

    5. Hōnen

      • Mark L. Blum
      Pages 361-379

    6. Zen Master Dōgen: Philosopher and Poet of Impermanence

      • Steven Heine
      Pages 381-405

    7. Keizan Jōkin and His Thought

      • Shūdō Ishii
      Pages 407-413

    8. How to Read Shinran

      • Dennis Hirota
      Pages 415-449
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About this book

The volume introduces the central themes in and the main figures of Japanese Buddhist philosophy. It will have two sections, one that discusses general topics relevant to Japanese Buddhist philosophy and one that reads the work of the main Japanese Buddhist philosophers in the context of comparative philosophy. It combines basic information with cutting edge scholarship considering recent publications in Japanese, Chinese, English, and other European languages. As such, it will be an invaluable tool for professors teaching courses in Asian and global philosophy, undergraduate and graduate students, as well as the people generally interested in philosophy and/or Buddhism.

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“One can wholeheartedly agree that it was timely and wise on the part of the Dao Companions to gather some of the best current experts on the various subfields of Japanese Buddhist philosophy in order to contribute to creating a finely detailed, most accurate picture of how Buddhist thought has been shaped by, and is still shaping … . characteristically religious discourse that merits the attention of the general reader curious about the Asian religious cultural heritage.” (Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review, VOl. 45 (4), December, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Luther College, Decorah, USA

    Gereon Kopf

  • University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland

    Gereon Kopf

About the editor

Gereon Kopf received his Ph.D. from Temple University and is currently professor of East Asian religions and philosophy of religion as well as the chair of the religion department at Luther College. He is also an adjunct professor of the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Iceland. As a research fellow of the Japan Foundation and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, he conducted research in 1993 and 1994 at Ōbirin University in Machida, Japan, and at the Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture in Nagoya, Japan, from 2002 to 2004.  In the academic year of 2008-2009, he taught at the Centre of Buddhist Studies at the University of Hong Kong.  2013-2014, he was a visiting lecturer at Saitama University and a Visiting researcher at Tōyō University. He is the author of Beyond Personal Identity (2001), the co-editor of Merleau-Ponty and Buddhism (2009) and the editor of the Journal of Buddhist Philosophy. He also contributes a series of essays on Japanese Buddhism to buddhistdoor.net. He is currently developing a non-essentialist philosophy of mind and an ethics based on a non-essentialist conception of identity formation.

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