Avataṃsaka Buddhism in East Asia

The volume about Avatamsaka Buddhism in East Asia is the result of a symposium organized in France in 2008. 15 contributions reflect the ways of manifestation and of expression of Huayan doctrines in several geographical regions and at different periods. Compared with previous valuable studies, the present volume intends to open broader perspectives, to give the opportunity to ...

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The volume about Avatamsaka Buddhism in East Asia is the result of a symposium organized in France in 2008. 15 contributions reflect the ways of manifestation and of expression of Huayan doctrines in several geographical regions and at different periods. Compared with previous valuable studies, the present volume intends to open broader perspectives, to give the opportunity to develop opened problematics, based on primary sources, textual and iconological. The Avatamsaka doctrines have developed particular ways of expression and paradigms on the Chinese soil, as a sinized Buddhism, they may be said to have achieved a philosophical revolution in the history of Mahayana: the Absolute is not the goal of the philosophical and soteriological inquiry, but its point of departure. The world is not only an illusion to be transcended but a manifestation of this very Absolute. The Avatamsaka can be seen as the backbone of influencial currents, the Chan or Zen, the Tiantai or Tendai, the Ritualistic Buddhism, the Pure Land teachings, as well as the Song studies. The renewal of problematics on history of religion in the Far East region, as the so-called combined scheme simultaneously philosophical (exoteric) and ritualist (esoteric), gives a meaning to the approach of Avatamsaka current as common denominator linked from China till the Qitan region to Korea and Japan.

Introduction (Frédéric Girard). ix
I. The Origins of Huayan Thought
KIMURA Kiyotaka:
What is the Meaning of Studying Huayan Philosophy in Today’s Global World? 1
HORI Shin’ichirō:
Sanskrit Fragments of the Buddhāvataṃsaka from Central Asia. 15
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Introduction (Frédéric Girard). ix
I. The Origins of Huayan Thought
KIMURA Kiyotaka:
What is the Meaning of Studying Huayan Philosophy in Today’s Global World? 1
HORI Shin’ichirō:
Sanskrit Fragments of the Buddhāvataṃsaka from Central Asia. 15
ŌTAKE Susumu:
Śākyamuni and Vairocana. 37
II. The Expansion of Huayan in Chinese Culture
A) The Interpretations of Mind-only Thought
Imre HAMAR:
Deconstructing and Reconstructing Yogācāra: Ten Levels of Consciousness-only/One-mind in Huayan Buddhism. 53
KIM-MAY Hyung-Hi:
The Relation between Emptiness and Mind-only According to the Life of the Bodhisattva as Described in the Avataṃsaka-sūtra. 73
B) Huayan in the Margins
Peter GREGORY:
The Three Truths in Huayan Thought
HUANG Yi-hsun:
Huayan Thought in a Northern Song Chan Text: The Zuting shiyuan. 109
Kirill J. SOLONIN:
The Teaching of Daoshen in Tangut Translation: The Mirror of Mind. 137
TSUCHIDA Kenjirō:
The Relationship between Zhu Xi and Anti-Zhu Xi Doctrine and Huayan (Kegon) Doctrine in China and Japan. 189
III. The Adaptation of a Visual Culture in China, Korea and Japan
A) An Iconographical Transplantation
MANABE Shunshō:
The Development of Images Depicting the Teaching of the Avataṃsaka-sūtra. 205
Dorothy C. WONG:
The Art of Avataṃsaka Buddhism at the Courts of Empress Wu and Emperor Shōmu/Empress Kōmyō. 223
PARK Hyounggook:
Vairocana Buddha in Korea. 261
B) The Transplantation of a Doctrinal Model
MORIMOTO Kōsei:
The Reign of Emperor Shōmu and the Flower Ornament Sūtra. 291
Frédéric GIRARD:
The Treatise of the Golden Lion Attributed to Fazang in China and Japan. 307
TAKEMURA Makio:
Kūkai’s Esotericism and Avataṃsaka Thought. 339
Abstracts. 377
Contributors. 383
Programme of the Second International Huayan Symposium Paris – Boutigny-sur-Essonne, 7th–10th August 2008. 387
Index of proper names. 389
Index of technical terms. 401
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